RT Journal Article T1 Technologies of Romance: Valentine from a Telegraph Clerk (m) to a Telegraph Clerk (f): the material culture and standards of early electrical telegraphy A1 Elizabeth Bruton YR 2019 VO IS Autumn 2019 K1 electrical telegraphy K1 James Clerk Maxwell K1 poetry K1 scientific instruments AB NO There are many, slightly varying versions of this poem so I have used the version from the first (1882) edition of Lewis Campbell and William Garnett, The life of James Clerk Maxwell: with a selection from his correspondence and occasional writings and a sketch of his contributions to science (London: Macmillan), pp 630–631. URL: https://archive.org/details/lifeofjamesclerk00camprich/ NO See Burns, B, 1857, History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications: The Song of the Atlantic Telegraph Company by James Clerk Maxwell. URL: https://atlantic-cable.com/Article/UnderTheSea/index.htm For further details of James Clerk Maxwell and an appendix of his poetry, see Campbell, L and Garnett, W, 1882, The life of James Clerk Maxwell: with a selection from his correspondence and occasional writings and a sketch of his contributions to science (London: Macmillan) URL: https://archive.org/details/lifeofjamesclerk00camprich/ NO Reformatted version of an article by Robert O Woods, Fellow ASME, that originally appeared in Mechanical Engineering, July 2011. It contains additional material from ‘From Gaining Weeks to Milliseconds The Transatlantic Cable’, by John Vardalas, initially published in IEEE-USA’s Today's Engineer, November 2010. URL: https://ethw.org/Transatlantic_Cable NO See Blyth, T, 2015, ‘Information age? The challenges of displaying information and communication technologies’ in Science Museum Group Journal, Spring. Article DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15180/150303 NO Homer, Ron, ‘Edward Davy, 1806–1855; Ottery’s Pioneer of the Electric Telegraph’, an unpublished paper in T/1923-232 Science Museum Technical File for: Daniell cell used by Davy, 1836/9, with spare pot. NO For further information about the Elliott Brothers, see https://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/exhibits/elliott-brothers/ NO T/1895-14 Science Museum Technical File for: Grove battery, five cells, in tray NO T/1895-14 Science Museum Technical File for: Grove battery, five cells, in tray and Mills, Bob. 'Early batteries for telegraph, telephone and other uses', in Australasian Telephone Collectors Society Newsletter (January 1995 and May 1995). URL: http://telephonecollecting.org/articles/batteries.html NO T/1895-13 Science Museum Technical File for: Smee Cell and Power, D’Arcy. ‘SMEE, ALFRED (1818–1877)’, Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, Volume 52. URL: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Smee,_Alfred_(DNB00) NO For further details, see Chapter 2: 'Meanings of Measurement and Accounts of Accuracy', in Gooday, G J N, 2004, The Morals of Measurement: Accuracy, Irony, and Trust in Late Victorian Electrical Practice (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). NO As of September 2019, this object is described in the Science Museum’s collections database as a replica but in fact may be a reconstruction, as discussed in correspondence with John Liffen. He also directed me to: Dennison, Mark and Tony Hall-Patch, ‘“Replica” steam locomotives, what purpose do they serve?’, in (ed) Jarvis, Adrian, Replicas as Research Tools, papers presented at a Research Day School Merseyside Maritime Museum 10 February 1996 which explains the difference between a replica, reconstruction, reproduction, and representation. NO T/1932-390 Science Museum Technical File for: Working Replica of the Gauss-Weber (1833) electromagnetic telegraph apparatus. (Exhibited at the Faraday Centenary Exhibition, September 1931) NO See Giorgi, Giovanni, ‘Rational Units of Electromagnetism’ [unpublished MS with handwritten notes by Oliver Heaviside]. URL: https://www.iec.ch/about/history/documents/documents_giovanni.htm NO T/1914-897 Science Museum Technical File for: Glazed frame, containing ‘Delineation of Lines of Magnetic Force by Iron filings’ prepared by Michael Faraday NO T/1915-363 Science Museum Technical File for: Hibbert standard one-volt cell and Wikisource contributors, ‘Author: Walter Hibbert’, Wikisource, https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Author:Walter_Hibbert&oldid=7310085 (accessed 1 September 2019) PB The Science Museum Group SN 2054-5770 LA eng DO 10.15180/191201 UL https://journal.sciencemuseum.ac.uk/article/valentine-from-a-telegraph-clerk/ WT Science Museum Group Journal OL 30