Information for Staff
13:15 - 13:55 30 October 2014
Lunch Hour Lecture: Bright Sparks: the history and science of fireworks
Location
Darwin Lecture Theatre |
Darwin Building
(
Map)
access via Malet Place |
London |
WC1E 6BT |
United Kingdom
Open to:
Academic |
Alumni |
Public |
Student
Admission: FREE
Speaker information
Dr Simon Werrett, UCL Science and Technology Studies
Dr Werrett explores the changing relationship between science and art in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries by looking at interactions between pyrotechnicians and scientists. Fireworks, used to celebrate grand occasions of state, inspired a variety of ideas about the natural world, while scientific advances in physics and chemistry helped to create surprising new pyrotechnic effects.
Contact
Events Team
+44 (0)20 3108 3841 |
events@ucl.ac.uk
Links
click here to watch this lecture live on the day at 1.15pm
