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Fireworks Part 2: Marvellous Contrivances and Warlike Music
MUSIC AND FIREWORKS! By the 17thc the most important state occasions and civic events called for pageants, processions, ceremonies and often included extravagant firework displays too. A new generation of gunners used their military skills with gunpowder to devise entertainments as well as weaponry. Fireworks … Continue reading
Electroculture
Did you know that the British Government spent the twenty years between the First and Second World Wars investigating the possibilities of electrifying plants? And did so in almost complete secrecy. It means that last week’s perpetually electrified garden wasn’t … Continue reading
The Electric Garden
I’ve written about many weird and wonderful inventions on here but I think this apparently madcap contraption might take some beating! It all started when I stumbled across an unusual engraving in the Wellcome Collection. There was no background information, … Continue reading
Joseph, Victoria and the amazing leaf
Picture the scene. A small group of well dressed people stand around a room with a large pond in the middle watching a serious looking man and a 9 yr old girl. Everyone watches in silence as he lifts her … Continue reading
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