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Making Telecommunications in the Making Telecommunications in the First World War, 24 January 2014.First World War, 24 January 2014.
Elizabeth Bruton & Graeme Gooday,‘Innovating in Combat:
Telecommunications and intellectual property in the First World War’
University of Leeds & Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
‘Innovating in Combat: Telecommunications and intellectual
property in the First World War• Aims: to help museums, archives,
and public to better appreciate the significance of communications technologies and patents during World War One
• Partners: BT archives, IET archives, Imperial War Museum North, Porthcurno Telegraph Museum, Science Museum, University of Leeds HSTM Museum
Project website: http://blogs.mhs.ox.ac.uk/innovatingincombat
Schedule (1)9.15-9.45: Welcome and tea and coffee
9.45-10.00: Elizabeth Bruton and Graeme Gooday, About “Innovating in Combat”
10.00-10.30: Dr Phil Judkins, University of Buckingham Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies, Trawling the Waves: Warfighting and Wireless in World War 1
10.30-11.00: David Barlow, Radio Officers Association and Lizard Wireless Museum, Wireless and direction finding at sea and in the air in World War I. - with emphasis on the role of Captain Henry Joseph Round. Note: David’s paper will be delivered via Skype
11.00-11.30: Tea and coffee
11.30-12.00: Keith Thrower, Army radio communication during the Great War
12.00-12.30: Professor Anthony Davies, Emeritus Professor, King’s College London and Visiting Professor, Kingston University, Surrey, The right tunes? Wavemeters for British army and air force uses in World War I time
12.30-1.00: Stephen Erskine, Green Howards Museum, ‘Victory calling’-evolution of operational communications: an infantry Battalion experience.
Schedule (2)1.00-2.00: Lunch
2.00-2.30: Paul Coleman, University of Leeds, Wireless defence: the use of wireless telegraphy against U-boats in the First World War.
2.30-3.00: Dr. Andreas Marklund, Post & Tele Museum, Denmark, Watching for the State: Cable Censorship and Practices of Surveillance at the Danish State Telegraph during World War I
3.00-3.30: Axel Volmar, University of Siegen, Germany, Where Only the Explosives Prevail: German Innovations in Sound Ranging and Telecommunications in World War I.
3.30-4.00: Tea and coffee
4.00-5.00: Roundtable discussion, chaired by Stephen Johnston
5.00-5.30: Closing remarks and thanks
Project outputs• Network and partnership with seven partner organisations: BT archives, IET
archives, Imperial War Museum North, Porthcurno Telegraph Museum, Science Museum, University of Leeds HSTM Museum
• Workshops and conferences for sharing knowledge and good practice and for planning centenary events and exhibitions:– Friday 28 June 2013: Interpreting Telecommunications in the Great War: A workshop for
museum interpreters, archivists and historians, Brotherton Room, University of Leeds– Friday 24 January 2014: Making Telecommunications in World War One, University Club,
Oxford
• Public lectures and events including:– August: Porthcurno Telegraph Museum and Marconi Centre; October: Royal Society,
Radio Society of Great Britain centenary convention, and Rutgers University; November: Science Museum and IET Humber; December: Café Scientifique, Leeds; January: Museum of the History of Science and Dorking & District Amateur Radio Society.
• Project website and blog for dissemination of digital resources including podcasts and online videos plus education packs
• Publications: journal articles, blog posts, book contributions etc.
Central Themes• Innovation - civilian and military
• Secrecy - security and interception
• Usage - civilian and military
• Rewards - profit and commemorations
Elizabeth Bruton demonstrates the Fullerphone to KS3 history students at Allerton Grange HS, Leeds
Future Outcomes
• Contributions to exhibition planning and content• More public events and lectures as centenary
approaches• Broaden understanding and build awareness of
telecommunications in World War One• Work with different audiences: general public,
museum, archive, University etc• Increased partnerships, internationally?• Wider dissemination of material about
telecommunications in World War One
Thank you!
w: http://blogs.mhs.ox.ac.uk/innovatingincombat/
@WWITelecomms / @lizbruton