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Electrifying Women 5 Key Themes: Resourcefulness
Women have played a long and important role in engineering. In the UK, the Women's Engineering Society was founded in 1919, but even before then there are examples of women working in engineering roles. The second video in our series examining the key themes in the history of women in... -
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Magazine article
Towards a Longer History of British Women in Engineering
Eilzabeth Bruton and Graeme Gooday discuss women in engineering before, during, and after the foundation of the Women's Engineering Society in 1919.Bruton, Elizabeth ; Gooday, Graeme
First World War, Women's Engineering Society, industry, technology, engineer, twentieth century, engineering, gender, and women in STEM
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Exhibition catalogue
Japan and the West: Exploration and Inspiration
Until 1853 Japan existed in virtual isolation. The earliest contacts came with European traders and missionaries. After 1639 the Dutch were the only Europeans allowed to trade with Japan. However contacts between the Dutch and Japanese were extremely limited. Various physicians working for the Dutch carried out important scientific work...Wyatt, Nick
technology, trade, Japan, exhibition, Europe, Tokugawa Yoshimune, and medicine
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Leaflet
Silence and Music programme
In 1935, the Science Museum staged a very uncharacteristic temporary exhibition, on the theme of noise abatement. The Museum’s exhibitions in those days usually celebrated new technologies, such as television (in 1937) or showed unfamiliar parts of its collections, for example ‘rafts, canoes and boats’ (1931). But noise was seen...Science Museum Group
silence, noise, University of Nottingham, music, acoustic, technology, and research
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Leaflet
Noise and Silence programme
This leaflet was handed out during the second workshop titled 'Noise and Silence', held at Nottingham University from 26 to 27 March 2015. It explored the sonic cultural context of industrial modernity which made noise an issue before, during and after the interwar period, and which saw the Science Museum...Science Museum Group
acoustic, silence, technology, University of Nottingham, exhibition, research, noise, and music
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Leaflet
Music and Noise programme
This leaflet was handed out during the final workshop titled 'Music and Noise', held at the Science Museum from 23 to 24 April 2015. It explored how the boundary between music and noise is policed. This workshop also included a summative session for the whole series.Science Museum Group
noise , silence, technology, Science Museum, music, and exhibition
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Music, Noise and Silence participant list
This document lists who attended each workshop as part of the Music, Noise and Silence project.Science Museum Group
Nottingham University, silence, Science Museum, acoustic, Royal College of Music, noise, technology, exhibition, and music