Victorians Decoded - Failure: a complete non-event - Scrambled Messages Research Workshop, July 2015
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posted on 2021-03-11, 10:18 authored by Cassandra NewlandVictorians 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 programme for the Scrambled Messages research workshop Failure: a complete non-event. Hosted by the Institute of Making, the workshop was held to mark the mark the 150th anniversary of the failure of the 1865 trans-Atlantic cable and explored ideas around making and failure.
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telegraphtelegraphycodingrepresentationcabletrans-AtlanticAtlanticexhibitionScrambled Messagescultural productionVictorianpaintingliteraturestoryCharles Wheatstonearchivescientistelectrical engineeringGuildhall Art GalleryBritish and Irish LiteratureOther Literatures in EnglishOcean EngineeringEngineering not elsewhere classifiedElectrical and Electronic Engineering not elsewhere classifiedHistoryHistory and Philosophy of Engineering and TechnologyBritish HistoryCommunications Technologies not elsewhere classifiedLanguage, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classifiedBritish and Irish literatureOther literatures in EnglishOcean engineeringOther engineering not elsewhere classifiedElectrical engineering not elsewhere classifiedHistorical studies not elsewhere classifiedHistory and philosophy of engineering and technologyBritish historyCommunications engineering not elsewhere classifiedOther language, communication and culture not elsewhere classified
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