John Agar Books
Science And Spectacle: The Work Of Jodrell Bank In Post-War British Culture
In the late 1950s, crowds massed to see a new spectacular and expensive instrument for British science. The Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope built on the Cheshire plains could be seen for miles around,...
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Science And Spectacle
Science and Spectacle relates the construction of the telescope to the politics and culture of post-war Britain. From radar and atomic weapons, to the Festival of Britain and, later, Harold Wilson'...
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