Issue 10 of Science Museum Group Journal is now live
Issue 10 of the Science Museum Group Journal can now be viewed at http://journal.sciencemuseum.o
This year is significant both as the centenary of women’s suffrage and
the Year of Engineering. In our final issue of 2018, we celebrate these
significant markers by turning the spotlight on women scientists with a
mini-collection of special papers. Read about the pioneering work of
Hertha Ayrton, the first female member of the Institution of Electrical
Engineers, and Blanche Thornycroft, a true pioneer among female naval
architects. Explore the under-acknowledged role of women in the railways
in the early twentieth century, find out what photographs can say about
attitudes towards women scientists, and discover how well (or not)
Wikipedia represents women engineers today. You’ll also find articles on
subjects ranging from Victorian technologies of display to the
challenges of exhibiting contemporary science, from the changing
‘voices’ of objects over time to an enlightening review of three
exhibitions by artist Tacita Dean