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Elizabeth Bruton

Curator of Engineering and Technology

Dr Elizabeth Bruton is Curator of Technology and Engineering at the Science Museum, London.  She was previously Heritage Officer at Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre, University of Manchester; Co-curator / Researcher for the Harry's Story: Henry Moseley, a scientist lost to war HLF-funded project and exhibition at the History of Science Museum, Oxford, and; postdoctoral researcher for AHRC-funded project Innovating in Combat: Telecommunications and intellectual property in the First World War, University of Leeds.  Her research interests include museums, communications history, military history, electrical history, gender, Victorian technologies, and scientific institutions.

Elizabeth Bruton

Article Contributions

  • Zygalski sheets: Polish codebreaking and the role of reconstruction in the Top Secret exhibition at the Science Museum 24 November 2022
  • Technologies of Romance: Valentine from a Telegraph Clerk (m) to a Telegraph Clerk (f): the material culture and standards of early electrical telegraphy 31 October 2019
  • The life and material culture of Hertha Marks Ayrton (1854-1923): suffragette, physicist, mathematician and inventor 14 November 2018