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Elizabeth Bruton & Graeme Gooday,‘Innovating in Combat:

Telecommunications and intellectual property in the First World War’

University of Leeds & Museum of the History of Science, Oxford

‘Innovating in Combat: Telecommunications and intellectual

property in the First World War• Aims: to help museums, archives,

and public to better appreciate the significance of communications technologies and patents during World War One

• Partners: BT archives, IET archives, Imperial War Museum North, Porthcurno Telegraph Museum, Science Museum, University of Leeds HSTM Museum

Project website: http://blogs.mhs.ox.ac.uk/innovatingincombat

Schedule (1)9.15-9.45: Welcome and tea and coffee

9.45-10.00: Elizabeth Bruton and Graeme Gooday, About “Innovating in Combat”

10.00-10.30: Dr Phil Judkins, University of Buckingham Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies, Trawling the Waves: Warfighting and Wireless in World War 1

10.30-11.00: David Barlow, Radio Officers Association and Lizard Wireless Museum, Wireless and direction finding at sea and in the air in World War I. - with emphasis on the role of Captain Henry Joseph Round. Note: David’s paper will be delivered via Skype

11.00-11.30: Tea and coffee

11.30-12.00: Keith Thrower, Army radio communication during the Great War

12.00-12.30: Professor Anthony Davies, Emeritus Professor, King’s College London and Visiting Professor, Kingston University, Surrey, The right tunes? Wavemeters for British army and air force uses in World War I time

12.30-1.00: Stephen Erskine, Green Howards Museum, ‘Victory calling’-evolution of operational communications: an infantry Battalion experience.

Schedule (2)1.00-2.00: Lunch

2.00-2.30: Paul Coleman, University of Leeds, Wireless defence: the use of wireless telegraphy against U-boats in the First World War.

2.30-3.00: Dr. Andreas Marklund, Post & Tele Museum, Denmark, Watching for the State: Cable Censorship and Practices of Surveillance at the Danish State Telegraph during World War I

3.00-3.30: Axel Volmar, University of Siegen, Germany, Where Only the Explosives Prevail: German Innovations in Sound Ranging and Telecommunications in World War I.

3.30-4.00: Tea and coffee

4.00-5.00: Roundtable discussion, chaired by Stephen Johnston

5.00-5.30: Closing remarks and thanks

Project outputs• Network and partnership with seven partner organisations: BT archives, IET

archives, Imperial War Museum North, Porthcurno Telegraph Museum, Science Museum, University of Leeds HSTM Museum

• Workshops and conferences for sharing knowledge and good practice and for planning centenary events and exhibitions:– Friday 28 June 2013: Interpreting Telecommunications in the Great War: A workshop for

museum interpreters, archivists and historians, Brotherton Room, University of Leeds– Friday 24 January 2014: Making Telecommunications in World War One, University Club,

Oxford

• Public lectures and events including:– August: Porthcurno Telegraph Museum and Marconi Centre; October: Royal Society,

Radio Society of Great Britain centenary convention, and Rutgers University; November: Science Museum and IET Humber; December: Café Scientifique, Leeds; January: Museum of the History of Science and Dorking & District Amateur Radio Society.

• Project website and blog for dissemination of digital resources including podcasts and online videos plus education packs

• Publications: journal articles, blog posts, book contributions etc.

Central Themes• Innovation - civilian and military

• Secrecy - security and interception

• Usage - civilian and military

• Rewards - profit and commemorations

Elizabeth Bruton demonstrates the Fullerphone to KS3 history students at Allerton Grange HS, Leeds

Future Outcomes

• Contributions to exhibition planning and content• More public events and lectures as centenary

approaches• Broaden understanding and build awareness of

telecommunications in World War One• Work with different audiences: general public,

museum, archive, University etc• Increased partnerships, internationally?• Wider dissemination of material about

telecommunications in World War One

Thank you!

G.J.N.Gooday@leeds.ac.uk

E.M.Bruton@leeds.ac.uk

w: http://blogs.mhs.ox.ac.uk/innovatingincombat/

@WWITelecomms / @lizbruton