…on Alexandra Palace, from the Daily Herald Archive, Science Museum Group collection Today marks the 80th anniversary of the inauguration of the world’s first regular series of high-definition television broadcasts….
…Brian in the Daily Herald Collection at Black Dyke Mill, 1997 © John Angerson Before I came along the curators had answered all the enquiries between them. Now they were…
…arrival in Hollywood in 1938. Hedy Lamarr the day she arrived in Hollywood. Daily Herald Archive/Science Museum Group/SSPL The poem refers to a patent (PDF) filed by Lamarr and George…
…the UK. CCTV in Oxford Street, Ron Burton, 20 November 1964. Daily Herald/Science Museum © Mirrorpix A 2016 survey by the British Security Industry Authority revealed there could be as…
…with the Double-8. This photo from the Daily Herald Archive shows some of the missing features. © Science Museum Group Collection As it was originally configured, the device contained not…
…1964 © United Press International, Daily Herald/Science Museum Group With mass surveillance, however, people may feel they are always being watched—truly ‘never alone’. This has in fact been used as…
…in on 30 September 1929. Sydney Moseley and two employees of the Baird Television Development Co. watch the inaugural television broadcast on a Noah’s Ark Televisor, 30 September 1929, Daily…
…control camera and issued through Associated Press, 21 July 1969. (Daily Herald Archive / Science Museum Group Collection) In the studio, Michelmore, Burke and Moore were all careful not to…
…bring to life a Brownie camera from our object handling collection and a photo from the Daily Herald archive. Following this training, members of the Visually Impaired Women’s Group based…
…at tables replete with fashion-related museum material: pre-war pictures from our enormous Daily Herald archive, early copies of Vogue magazine, and iconic pictures of original supermodel Twiggy. Meanwhile, our very…
…‘Under Canvas’ 1938, George W. Roper. © Science Museum Group collection ‘Holiday Joys on the Beach’ 1937, Saidman, Daily Herald. © Science Museum Group collection ‘View of a pier’ c.1900,…
…the Pilkington report, which expressed disappointment with the commercial programming on ITV, BBC2—the UK’s third television channel—was to be relatively highbrow. In his Daily Herald column, Dennis Potter declared: ‘BBC2…