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Articles tagged “Object biography”

Colour photograph of Stephen Hawkings blackboard covered in doodles and grafitti
By Juan-Andres Leon

Stephen Hawking’s superspace and supergravity blackboard: an iconic artefact in the making

An admission ticket to the private Edinburgh Observatory on Calton Hill from 1798
By Rebekah Higgitt

Revealing observatory networks through object stories: Introduction

Illustration of the scheme of the Arcturus stunt as explained in an astronomy book
By Rebekah Higgitt, Susana Biro and Pedro M P Raposo

Revealing observatory networks through object stories: Observatory audiences

Photograph of three nuns working at the Vatican Observatory
By Ileana Chinnici, Louise E Devoy and Fernando B Figueiredo

Revealing observatory networks through object stories: Object itineraries

Colour photograph of a framed Daguerreotype of the Moon
By Emily Akkermans, Kelley Wilder and Samantha Thompson

Revealing observatory networks through object stories: Instrumental networks

Colour photograpoh of a Western Australian forest being managed by burning
By Nicola Froggatt

When is a shield not a shield? Interpreting Indigenous versatility in an East End match factory

Colour photograph of the Black Arrow rocket suspended in the Science Museum Space Gallery
By Doug Millard

Black Arrow R4: the object behind the screen

Colour photograph of a Polish Enigma cipher machine
By Elizabeth Bruton, Jeremy McCarthy and Dermot Turing

Zygalski sheets: Polish codebreaking and the role of reconstruction in the Top Secret exhibition at the Science Museum

Colour photograph of an iron lung negative pressure ventilator
By Farrah Lawrence-Mackey

‘Iron lung’ as metaphor

Trade card of Valentine Gottlieb from 1810
By David Bryden

Science and the City: Valentine Gottlieb, immigrant engineer of Lambeth: his trade card of c. 1810 unpacked

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