This project will explore a number of research themes.
- Engaging Communications Heritage: history, location and museology
To experiment with and determine the most fitting way that geolocated digital heritage can add to public engagement with museum collections. To determine whether museum collections and expertise contains the necessary spatial knowledge for such a service. To understand in what ways the personal histories of communications can inform, and be informed by, scholarly histories. To understand, discuss and disseminate what this will mean for the expertise of professionals and amateur enthusiasts. - Networking Organisations: humanities, culture and business
To use the expertise of heritage organisations and the humanities to inform interaction and application design. To understand the roles that dissemination within museum, academia and industry networks can play in provoking new interpretations and innovative services. - Designing for Users: interaction, participation and services
To determine and design the appropriate interface conventions for user interaction with mobile heritage. To understand what are the modes of user participation, mediated through mobiles and PC. To research and respond to user expectations for such a service.
Having established that ‘television’ counts as communications in this instance, I would like to add a few suggestions. This is the first offering – pre World War II addresses. It’s not exhaustive and many have *interesting* stories associated with them that would take too long to tell here.
John Logie Baird and Baird Television Ltd. (British developer of electro-mechanical television) addresses:
1. 22 Frith Street, Soho Nov. 1924 to Feb. 1926 first 30 line demonstrations.
2. Upper Floor, Motograph House, Upper St. Martin’s Lane, WC1 Feb. 1926 to Jan 1928
3. 133 Long Acre, WC2 Jan. 1928 to July 1933
4. Crystal Palace, Sydenham July 1933 Fire 30th Nov. 1936
5. Worsley Bridge Road, Sydenham, Kent (Baird Television Ltd 1938)
6. Home address: Swiss Cottage, Box Hill, Surrey. Home address from Jan. 1929.
7. Home address (and private laboratory): 3, Crescent Wood Road, from summer 1933
Scophony Ltd. (designers and manufacturers of a unique television system) addresses:
1. Dean House, Dean Street, Soho 1932 -1935
2. 2 Thornwood Lodge, Campden Hill, Kensington, W8 (Scophony 1935-40)
Marconi-EMI Ltd. (the ‘all electronic CRT based system manufacturers in Great Britain) addresses:
1. Blyth Road, Hayes, Middlesex (1934 to 1946)
BBC (adopter and broadcaster of television) addresses associated with television activities:
1. Studio BB Sub-basement, BBC Broadcasting House, Portland Place, W1A 1AA (1932-1935 experimental 30 line service).
2. Alexandra Palace, Wood Green, N22 (BBC ‘high definition’ transmission studios and transmitter, 1935-1939)
More to follow – post war up to about 1970 to include Television Centre and other studios/transmitters.