{"id":4691,"date":"2012-10-19T08:49:28","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T08:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=4691"},"modified":"2022-01-18T17:12:52","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T17:12:52","slug":"music-and-physics-on-the-strand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/music-and-physics-on-the-strand\/","title":{"rendered":"Music and Physics on the Strand"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Music Shop at no. 436 Strand<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Monday 22 October 2012, 6.00pm-7.30pm <\/strong>
\nVenue: King’s College London <\/strong>
\nStrand Building 2:39 (English Seminar Room)<\/strong>
\nIntroduced by Clare Pettitt<\/strong>
\n\u201cFrom the age of fourteen until his late teens, Charles Wheatstone worked in his uncle\u2019s musical instrument shop on the Strand, modifying instruments and conducting experiments in acoustics at the back of the shop until he left to take up a scientific career, later moving down the road to become Professor of Experimental Philosophy at King’s College London and inventing the stereoscope, improving the concertina (Wheatstone\u2019s musical instrument makers is still a going concern and makes concertinas) and inventing, with Cooke, the telegraph. When he was only 19 years old in September 1821, Wheatstone caused quite a sensation by inventing and exhibiting the \u2018Enchanted Lyre or Aconcryptophone\u2019 at his father\u2019s music school\/shop on Pall Mall and subsequently at the Adelaide Gallery of Practical Science on the Strand.
\nThis session will concentrate on the crossover between musical, commercial and scientific culture and will ask whether it is possible to map the multiple utility of spaces on the Strand (shops which are schools which are galleries which are scientific workshops etc.) onto the radical rearrangement of the senses in this period which made new technologies of seeing, hearing and communication possible.\u201d
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The Music Shop at no. 436 Strand Monday 22 October 2012, 6.00pm-7.30pm Venue: King’s College London Strand Building 2:39 (English Seminar Room) Introduced by Clare Pettitt \u201cFrom the age of fourteen until his late teens, Charles Wheatstone worked in his uncle\u2019s musical instrument shop on the Strand, modifying instruments and conducting experiments in acoustics at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,56,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-music","category-science","p1","y2012","m10","d19","h08"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10592,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4691\/revisions\/10592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}