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Information Age at the Science Museum

A series of videos, provided exclusively to the Guardian by London's Science Museum, showcasing its new Information Age gallery opening on Saturday 25 October 2014
  • Queen Tweet

    The Queen's tweet: monarch sends her first message on Twitter – video

    The Queen sends her first tweet while opening Information Age, the new telecommunications gallery at London's Science Museum

  • Telephonists

    Information Age: 'The whole place lit up' – 1950s telephone operator recalls the death of King George VI – video

    Rose Young tells Guardian science editor Ian Sample about her work as a telephone exchange operator during the 1950s

    • Tim Berners-Lee: hateful people on the web are 'staggering'

    • Information Age: All you need is love (and three satellites)

    • Coils and cables: Science Museum opens information age gallery

  • Singer and actor Paul Robeson in 1958.

    Information Age: Paul Robeson, McCarthy and the submarine repeater

    In the 1950s, an amazing piece of kit carried the voice of the singer and civil rights activist Paul Robeson loud and clear across the Atlantic to London
  • Lyons Tea Room

    Information Age: the (cake) computer that changed our world

    It wasn’t IBM that pioneered the first business computer, but the British teashop chain Lyons. This is the third in our series on the major inventions that shaped the information age
  • BBC radio news announcer Alvar Liddell in 1922. He is the man who announced the abdication of King Edward VIII.

    Information Age: the radio transmitter that changed our world

    The second of our series on the major inventions that shaped the information age revisits the London transmitter 2LO and the birth of British broadcasting
  • A phonebox at Tanrallt, Llanrallt in Wales.

    Information Age: the Science Museum's ambitious new gallery

    London’s Science Museum opens its largest ever gallery on Saturday. To celebrate the launch of Information Age, this week we unveil five of the greatest inventions in the history of communication
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