Do you know places in London that are significant for the history of communications, computing and information technologies?
We are looking for suggestions that will help us in an experimental project to guide mobile users through the UK's rich history of technology. The project is called Locating Communications Heritage. In the pilot phase we are finding out how best to guide people walking around London with a mobile phone, using the locatability function of recent smartphones to reveal the significance of sites.
The idea is to link places to objects as well as to link to further contextual and archival information. There will also be the ability to record users' memories of the history of communications technology.
So for example, if you were walking down the Strand you will see on your phone that UK's pioneering BBC radio transmitter, 2LO, operated from Marconi House. By clicking, you could find out more about the 2LO, an extraordinary object, at the Science Museum. If your grandmother was a 2LO operator, you could record her recollections.
Places could be the sites of interesting machines (such as 2LO or the LEO computer at Cadby Hall), places of invention (such as John Ambrose Fleming's thermionic valves in Bloomsbury), birthplaces, buildings (such as the BT Tower), or places where communications were vital (such as the London Stock Exchange).
Examples could be from the deep or recent past.
If you have examples you would like to share, or if you would just like to stay in contact with this experimental project, then please email me at [log in to unmask],
and/or
leave a message for us at our project blog:
http://sciencemuseumdiscovery.com/blogs/locatingheritage/
cheers,
Jon
Dr Jon Agar
Locating Communications Heritage is a collaboration between UCL, Science Museum, Illumina Digital and BT (BT Archives in particular). If you would like to know more about the network then please contact:
Dr Tilly Blyth
Curator of Computing and Information
Science Museum
Exhibition Road
London SW7 2DD
[log in to unmask]
0207 942 4211
or
Dr Jon Agar
Senior Lecturer in Science and Technology Studies
STS
UCL
Gower Street
London
WC1E 6BT
Locating Communications Heritage is supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and BT under their Digital Heritage research theme.
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