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About Me
I am Curator of Engineering and Technology at the Science Museum, London with responsibilities for communications collections. My research interests include museums, telecommunications history, military history, electrical history, Victorian technologies, scientific institutions, computing history, and scientific instruments.

Recent publications include "From theory to engineering practice: shared telecommunications knowledge between Oliver Heaviside and his brother and GPO engineer Arthur West Heaviside" Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 276 (November 2018); "The life and material culture of Hertha Marks Ayrton (1854–1923): suffragette, physicist, mathematician and inventor" published in Science Museum Group Journal issue 10 (Autumn 2018); and MacLeod, Roy, Russell Egdell, and Elizabeth Bruton (eds), "For Science, King and Country: The Life and Legacy of Henry Moseley" (Unicorn Press, 2018).

Previous roles include Heritage Officer at Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre, University of Manchester; Co-curator / Researcher for the "Harry's Story: Henry Moseley, a scientist lost to war" HLF-funded project and exhibition, Museum of the History of Science, Oxford; 2014-2015 Byrne-Bussey Marconi Visiting Fellow at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford; and postdoctoral researcher for AHRC-funded project "Innovating in Combat: Telecommunications and intellectual property in the First World War", University of Leeds.

1. Sonic Imperium: Sound And The State In The Twentieth Century

2. Flying Caps And Throat Microphones: Solving The Problems Of Aviation Communication In World War One

1. Sonic Imperium: Sound And The State In The Twentieth Century - 25 Jul, 2019