Stories
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How electromagnetic therapy inspired me
Poet Sarah James explores how repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation treated her depression and influenced her art.
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Charged bodies
Electrified humans brought education and performance together with a spark in the 18th century.
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Birth, babies and boxes of memories
With memories of her baby in neonatal intensive care still fresh, Erin Beeston decides to unearth the poignant objects her family kept following births, going back as far as Victorian times.
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Electrical epilepsy and the EEG Test
The EEG (electroencephalograph) literally electrified the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy. But for Aparna Nair the dreaded EEG tests of her adolescence were a painful ordeal.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Crossed Wires Fidget
Date: 1991Reference: PP/BCH/10/1/7Part of: Bryan Charnley (1949-1991): archive- Digital Images
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Making the Steel Wires for the Atlantic Telegraph Cable of 1865.
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A treatise on silk, wool, worsted, cotton, and thread, describing their nature, properties and qualities, with instructions to clean the manufactures in the hosiery branch, And At The Same Time Preserve their Colour and Beauty; (calculated For The Use Of Families.) to which are added, descriptive remarks on frame-work knitting, Knitting With Wires, And Patent Manufacturies. By R. March, Hosier, (no 230) Temple-Bar.
March, R.Date: [1779]- Pictures
A naked woman in an orange cloud, connected by wires to a man in a white laboratory coat. Watercolour by T.E. Hart, 1967.
Hart, Thea E., active approximately 1967.Date: 25.9.67 [25 September 1967]Reference: 2948751iPart of: Adamson Collection- Pictures
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An opened electric plug, an electric flex with exposed wires, and a newspaper article about death caused by a wrongly wired plug. Colour lithograph after Robin Day.
Day, Robin, 1915-2010.Reference: 32585i