Threading through history: the vertical transmission of Davy, Faraday and Tyndall’s lecture demonstration practices

This essay explores the extent to which residues of the practices inherent in nineteenth-century science lecture-demonstrations from the Royal Institution of Great Britain (RI) are evident in contemporary forms of Science Museum Group (SMG) Explainer presentations. The discipline of Performance Stud...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ceri Pitches
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Science Museum, London 2016-11-01
Series:Science Museum Group Journal
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Online Access:http://journal.sciencemuseum.org.uk/browse/issue-06/threading-through-history/