Honorary Lecturer, University of Glasgow, Engineering Archaeologist, Television Historian, Author.
London, England
Joined May 2009
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@TVdon applies his #electromechanical #archaeological skills to #JohnLogieBaird's 1925 #TV system ieeexplore.ieee.org/document… @JLBaird_Archive @ConnHistofBBC @BBCentury @MediaHistoryNow @MediaHistoryCN @Mediahistoire @electricalhrg @mediarchaeology @SocHistTech @stephencass @ComSoc
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The BBC at 100 symposium, 14-15 Sept 2022 - Apply at tinyurl.com/bbc100form to participate in free AHRC-sponsored event at National Science and Media Museum, Bradford. Join us and spread the word! @NSMM_Events @ahrcpress @iamhist @IAMCRtweets @MeCCSA2022 @BAFTSS @ConnHistofBBC
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This is the most important #thread we’ve ever written.
The Church Commissioners are running a consultation that makes deeply worrying proposals that we believe would diminish the democracy of the church closure process, and reduce transparency and accountability of the Church.
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Lou Ottens
Developer of the compact cassette tape and head of the same team who developed the compact disc at Philips.
21.06.1921-06.03.2021
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The starlings enjoying an Aberystwyth sunset - In a few weeks, they'll all be heading back to Siberia.
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Puerto Rico’s famed Arecibo Observatory, once the largest radio telescope in the world, will be demolished because of cable failures that left its huge detector platform too unstable to attempt repairs, officials announced Thursday.
Full story: spaceflightnow.com/2020/11/1…
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NASA has released the first up-close images taken by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft during its touch and go landing on asteroid Bennu yesterday.
Preliminary data indicate the spacecraft was in contact with the asteroid's surface for approximately 6 seconds.
spaceflightnow.com/2020/10/2…
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This is so, so great - funny and angry and touching and real and hopeful and just all-round wonderful.
Much like Kathryn and @PatinkinMandy
My glorious AF wife Kathryn helped with my latest campaign video. Whatever the polls say we have to stay calm and resolute in this fight, giving whatever time, money and power we can. Get active to get out the vote TODAY. thelastweekends.org/doit #GOTV #createtheoutcome #VOTE
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Important reflections... the 'restoration' is not a neutral process but rather a mediation to bring the image more in line w today's sensibilities + expectations - hence 'Babel' disclaimer that these are not 'Vogue' photoshoots, when the image has been 'restored' to be just such
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Robert Roberts was a north-Walian quarryman. His death on 23 April 1888 resulted in a churchyard break-in by candlelight, an illicit burial, and the rise of a Prime Minister.
All because his final wish was to be buried beside his daughter at their local churchyard.
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How to document media archaeological experiments? That was the topic of our first DEMA workshop, held 17-18 December 2019 @C2DH_LU @uni_lu. You can now read the full workshop report on our project website: dema.uni.lu/documenting-medi… @dema_c2dh
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Happy Birthday #PrincePhillip, Duke of Edinburgh & the husband of Queen Elizabeth II, is 99 today!
Image: The Prince Phillip Medal for engineering innovation awarded to EMI engineer Godfrey Hounsfield for X-ray computed tomography. Photo part of @EMIArchiveTrust
#IAW2020
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A special report from @UCLH intensive care unit. The reality of coronavirus and it’s impact on patients and staff. A vitally important message for us all - social distancing really will save lives.
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"#MediaArchaeology: a viable discipline or a valuable symptom?"
"The expectation is that by once more “opening up” these pasts, one can also enable or envisage a different #future"
By Thomas Elsaesser (@UvA_Amsterdam)
doi.org/10.7238/a.v0i21.3204
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I'll send a set of these new Letters of Note books to one person who retweets this. Randomly chosen. You have 24hrs to take part. I'll sign them unless told otherwise, & I'll write the winner a letter unless told otherwise. Keep washing your hands. Stay at home. We can do this x
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What we wouldn't give for a Gordon Brown or John Major right now theguardian.com/politics/202…
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Shocked to hear that Thomas Elsaesser has died unexpectedly whilst in Beijing. An old friend and comrade-in-ideas who I will miss greatly faz.net/aktuell/zum-tod-des-… – at Wandsworth, London
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In space, no one can hear you scream.
Beware these TERRIFYING REAL PLANETS that turn our Milky Way into… the GALAXY OF HORRORS!
Free space poster downloads from @NASAExoplanets debut Oct. 29 at exoplanets.nasa.gov