Researched and written by Geoff Winckles
Narrated by Robert Lloyd Parry (Nunkie Theatre), and featuring dramatised readings from “The Year Without A Summer”
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(webinar link will go live from 7.40pm on Monday 11 May 2020)

The “virtual” Cambridge Museum of Technology presents another free, volunteer-produced webinar that explores the history, heritage and legacy of our industrial past.

This live webinar with audience Q&A will explore the history, physics and engineering of lighting techniques from the Stone age to the Victorian age.

Featuring pioneers such as William Murdoch (of the Boulton & Watt company), the webinar will chart the evolution and progress of gas lighting that gave a significant boost to the emerging industrial revolution and to domestic and commercial lighting.

A companion to the previous (April 2020) Museum of Technology webinar Cambridge University & Town Gas-Light Company, this presentation will cover lighting and other appliances from the early industrial revolution through the Victorian age until gas lighting was finally eclipsed by electrical lighting in the 20th century.

The webinar, narrated by Robert Lloyd Parry (aka Nunkie Theatre) and produced by Gordon Davies, will also feature dramatised readings from 1816, The Year Without A Summer.

How to join this free, live webinar

At the broadcast time, join the webinar from your computer or mobile device.
This webinar uses Microsoft Teams Live Event.
Download the mobile app (Mac OS, Android) or join anonymously from your web browser at using Chrome, Firefox, or Edge (Safari is not currently supported).

The webinar will play in listen-only mode. Attendees can submit questions via the on-screen Q&A box (attendees cannot share video or audio):

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