Visiting BT’s Information Age Gallery at the Science Museum

In The Playroom posted: "On Sunday morning we visited the Science Museum and, as my other half was particularly keen, headed straight up to the Information Age gallery on the second floor before it got busy (a side benefit of arriving at opening time: you might just be able to na" New post on In The Playroom Visiting BT's Information Age Gallery at the Science Museum by In The Playroom On Sunday morning we visited the Science Museum and, as my other half was particularly keen, headed straight up to the Information Age gallery on the second floor before it got busy (a side benefit of arriving at opening time: you might just be able to nab one of the parking slots on Prince Consort Road, about 3 minutes walk away, which is free on Sundays). The Information Age gallery explores how information and communications technologies have transformed our lives over the past 200 years. It's the Science Museum's biggest gallery to date, and is split into six zones, each covering a different type of information & communication technology: The Cable - where it all begins, looking at the early days of the telegraph and how laying cable made immediate long-distance and transatlantic communication possible - and then The Telephone Exchange, Broadcast (covering radio and television), Constellation (satellite communication), The Cell (mobile networks) and The Web. Read more of this post In The Playroom | March 6, 2016 at 6:37 pm | Categories: Days Out & Holidays | URL: http://wp.me/p3uLZj-5E3 Comment    See all comments