Issue 16 of the Science Museum Group Journal
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From: Richard Nicholls <Richard....@ScienceMuseum.ac.uk>
Issue 16 of the
Science Museum Group Journal features a strong strain
of research from within the Science Museum Group. Robert
Gwynne brings together railway and computer histories by
looking at the
long engagement of the railways with
data driven technologies; Abigail Wilson looks at the
impact of
Joseph Whitworth’s legacy on Manchester’s built environment;
and Alex Rose discusses a
collection of seismographs originally located at Eskdalemuir
Observatory in Scotland. Charles Ormrod looks at the
history of mechanised production in luxury goods while
Pippi Carter-Hornsby discusses a methodology for
capturing and preserving the disappearing (and often tacit)
knowledge required to operate large working exhibits.
In other articles, Curator Imogen Holmes-Roe discusses the
history and direction of the Whitworth gallery, whilst
David H Lee contributes a
study of audience responses to a
health exhibition in the USA with objectives to change
behaviours.
Our growing reviews section allows discussion of the crucial
contemporary issues faced by museums. Here Subhadra Das
discusses
Corrine Fowler’s Green Unpleasant Land while
Photography Off the Scale (eds Tomáš Dvořák and Jussi
Parikka) is reviewed by Surya Bowyer.
RICHARD
NICHOLLS
E-JOURNAL EDITORIAL ASSISTANT
Science Museum
Exhibition Road, London SW7 2DD