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Objects at an Exhibition review – Aurora Orchestra finds scientific inspiration

Edit The Guardian 05 Oct 2015
3 / 5 stars. Science Museum, London ... It contrasted, too, with Claudia Molitor’s rather engaging 2TwoLO, that harks back to the earliest days of radio in the UK, when broadcasting music was forbidden on the fledgling station 2LO, and imagines a way of smuggling a performance (of Handel’s famous Largo) into this music-free zone ... Twitter ... ....

Tony Hall's speech on his future vision for the BBC - full text

Edit The Guardian 07 Sep 2015
Speech by the director general outlining his plans for an ‘open BBC’, as well as expansion of the World Service and help for local newspapers. Ladies and gentlemen,. Welcome to the Information Age gallery. In this room we can relive the history of a nation that has led the world in communication. Related ... And, by the way, go and have a look round the corner there at 2LO, the BBC’s first transmitter, where it all began ... Creative freedom ... ....

Interview with Athletes‘ Commission member Jessica Lindell-Vikarby (FIS - Fédération Internationale de Ski)

Edit noodls 05 Nov 2014
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Queen to open museum's tech gallery

Edit Belfast Telegraph 24 Oct 2014
The Queen will be shown technological wonders from the past 200 years when she opens a major new gallery at the Science Museum today ... Ian Blatchford, director of London's Science Museum, said ... And the original Marconi radio transmitter that made the first public broadcast in 1922 with the famous words 'This is 2LO calling' - announcing the arrival of the BBC and the birth of British broadcasting - will be on show. COMMENT RULES ...   ... ....

Coils and cables: Science Museum opens information age gallery

Edit The Guardian 24 Oct 2014
Museum unveils the UK’s first permanent gallery dedicated to the history of information and communications technology. A dial telephone from the 1930s that will appear in the Information Age exhibition. Photograph ... Set against the electromechanical devices of the 19th century, the glorious muddle of valves and coils that is the BBC’s 2LO transmitter, and displays of the ZX81 and Vic20 from the 1980s, the rate of advance is breathtaking....

Information Age: the radio transmitter that changed our world

Edit The Guardian 21 Oct 2014
The second in our series on the major inventions that shaped the information age revisits the London transmitter 2LO and the birth of British broadcasting ... The second in our series, “The radio transmitter that changed our world”, tells the story of Arthur Burrows, 2LO and the ......

BBC looks beyond the walled garden in a changing media world

Edit The Guardian 19 Aug 2014
... to the public imagination, is really only in the position of the prehistoric fisherman who put out a few hundred yards from shore in his frail coracle or dug-out … We may be certain, therefore, that the work of the past few years … is but shallow-water fishing in relation to ocean navigation.” Arthur Burrows at the microphone broadcasting for 2LO....

Science Museum to launch landmark communications gallery (Science Museum)

Edit noodls 13 Aug 2014
Thomson's original galvanometer used to receive the first telegraph messages sent across the Atlantic between President Buchanan and Queen Victoria in 1858 The original Marconi radio transmitter that made the first public broadcast in 1922 with the famous words 'This is 2LO calling' - announcing the arrival of the BBC and the birth of British ......

2014 events and exhibitions: January - September (Science Museum)

Edit noodls 03 Feb 2014
(Source. Science Museum). 11.00-13.00 & 14.00-17.00; every Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. 1st floor Wellcome Wing, Who am I? gallery. Duration. 10 minutes. Suitable for all ages ... 19.30-20.35 ... Rare exhibits will include the extremely sensitive instruments which detected the first transatlantic telegraph messages in 1858, the BBC's first radio transmitter 2LO, and a BESM-6, the only Russian supercomputer in a museum collection in the West....
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