Graeme Gooday

1.8 - Physical Sciences with Graeme The Science of 1875 · Episode

It's our regular Monday announcement... New podcast episode!

Graeme Gooday explores the history of the physical sciences 150 years ago, and why they were core subjects first taught at the Yorkshire College of Science #histsci #skystorians #chemistry #physics

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Booked online! Thanks Nina.

Yes I’ve been using this particular advert in teaching the gendered history of electrical safety for several decades now! 😊

Collaborative PhD history of science/technology studentship now available at University of Leeds on the marvellous Caroline Haslett and her international networks wrocah.ac.uk/wp-content/u...

YouTube video by IET Together in Electric Dreams: Tackling Climate Change

An inspirational talk from Dame Julia King for our difficult times.
@wes1919.bsky.social @graemegooday.bsky.social
youtu.be/C2n8hLKDNkE?...

I fear there is deep truth here.

History of science PhD students! Come to Leeds for the BSHS Postgraduate conference in April 2025. Details in the link above.

pg-conference.bshs.org.uk

And here’s the whole open-access volume of articles produced by Dr Jo Ashbourn at the Oxford Centre for History & Philosophy of Physics: iopscience.iop.org/issue/1742-6...

Search Results for “Branches” – IET Archives blog Stories from the Institution of Engineering and Technology

Early UK branches listed here ietarchivesblog.org?s=Branches

Dr Katie Carpenter and Professor Graeme Gooday from the University of Leeds in front of a group of engineering students in an engineering lab

Fantastic afternoon and a huge thank you to Dr Katie Carpenter & Professor Graeme Gooday from @universityofleeds.bsky.social @hpsleeds.bsky.social who came to speak to Selby College Engineering & Electrical Installation Students about the history of women in engineering.

Actually wrote this over a year ago - IOP takes a little longer to publish than does Nature Review Physics!

PDF should be downloadable here until Monday 18th November.

The monster mechanical delusion: nineteenth-century controversies concerning perpetual motion - IOPscienceSearch The monster mechanical delusion: nineteenth-century controversies concerning perpetual motion, Graeme Gooday

Meditations on perpetual motion machines and sustainable energy (& inescapable thermodynamics…) iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

extract from a cartoon on a teatowel, showing lots of ladies in hats and some men without much hair in a drawing room, deep in disucssion

#OTD 12 November 1924 a meeting in a drawing room attended by leading figures in the UK's electrical world was inspired by Mrs Mabel Matthews' idea to form the Electrical Association for Women. The event was commemorated on EAW's 40th anniversary #teatowels in 1964 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electri...

Great to work on this with you Nina.

How promoting domestic electricity became physics outreach Nature Reviews Physics - On the centenary of the founding of the Electrical Association for Women , three historians of science and technology reflect on the impact of bringing physics literacy...

Published today to mark centenary of the Electrical Association for Women’s foundation, 12 November 1924! Commissioned by Nature Physics Reviews editor, Ankita Anirban, who was wonderfully enthusiastic about EAW history at this year’s BSHS annual conference in Aberystwyth rdcu.be/dZTVy

Tomorrow, 12 Nov, @graemegooday.bsky.social is leading the centenary celebrations of the Electrical Association for Women and @kingtekkers.bsky.social is speaking at the @museumsassociation.bsky.social conference. It’s all happening! #histsci

Indeed I do !

Square saucepans with diagonal handles at Bristol’s Stradling Collection (borrowed from the local Electricity Museum). Why? Apparently developed in 1930s by the Electrical Association for Women for efficient use of square electric hot plates!

The first president of the EAW in 1924, Nancy Astor, was apparently amused that its members expected
to be ‘emancipated’ by electricity: ‘the most difficult thing in a house was a man, and electrical equipment would not get rid of that’… even if electricity did make life ‘easier in other respects!’

Electricity: Emancipating Women | The Stradling Collection The All-Electric House 19 October - 16 November This exhibition is our contribution to the centenary celebration of the founding of the Electrical Association for Women (EAW) in conjunction with the w...

Great to see this in Bristol: one of many markers for centenary of UK’s Electrical Association for Women. stradlingcollection.org/all-electric...

Another great centenary for women in technology arriving right on time!