posted on 2021-03-11, 10:17authored byCassandra Newland
Victorians Decoded: Art and Telegraphy celebrated the 150th anniversary of the first successful communications cable laid across the Atlantic Ocean, connecting Europe with America. A collaboration between Guildhall Art Gallery, King's College London, The Courtauld Institute of Art and the Institute of Making at University College London, the exhibition used iconic Victorian paintings and early telegraphic objects to explore how cable telegraphy transformed people's understanding of time, space and speed of communication.
This item contains the Scrambled Messages panel proposal for the British Association for Victorian Studies Conference, 4-6 September 2014, including Newland's abstract for the paper 'Writing a Wonderstuff: Gutta-percha and the telegraph'.
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