Hi Alice,
Thank you for your fantastic suggestions and links. I too am getting excited about the possibilities and there are some great ideas out there.
This could be a great project that grows and grows.
Best wishes,
Larissa
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Subject: Re: [PSCI-COM] Light, electricity, magnetism and knitting. Any ideas?
I suggest you talk to Lauren O Farrell http://www.whodunnknit.com/ She's done work with the NHM, the Science Museum and the Hunterian.
Or a knit artist who does a lot of work with fibers, and who has an artistic interest in the history and cultures of sound so might be
*very* excited to talk to you in terms of the history of communcation is Felicity Ford http://thedomesticsoundscape.com/wordpress/
And these emission spectra scarves are maybe slightly out of the area, scientifically, but you might like http://sternlab.org/2010/02/emission-spectra-scarves/
On 11 June 2012 06:23, Larissa Paver <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Anyone got any ideas how we might use knitting to explore the science & technology around electricity, magnetism & light?
>
> The context is Porthcurno Telegraph Museum. A key idea behind the electric telegraph is how electromagnets and permanent magnets can be used to communicate over very long distances through cables, using galvanometers, siphon recorders, relays and so on. Modern communication cables use optical fibres of course.
>
> The other half of the equation is our knitting group, the Cable Stitchers, who are currently knitting a whole range of wonderful woollies from WWII patterns. (The telegraph equipment at Porthcurno, vital for secure international communication, was moved into underground tunnels in 1941 and the whole valley sealed off and guarded. The tunnels are still an integral part of the museum).
>
> It would be fantastic to put the two together (knitting and physics) and the challenge is how to do it and what to do. Knitting with thin and flexible optical fibres seems like a grand start, but we need to know where to find them, and to think about integrating sources of light...
>
> Any ideas and suggestions, however off the wall, happily accepted. The creative communities of West Cornwall are very open to anything new and different. Thank you!
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> Larissa Paver
> Learning & Interpretation Manager
> Porthcurno Telegraph Museum
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