{"id":790,"date":"2013-03-07T14:27:13","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T14:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=790"},"modified":"2013-03-07T14:27:13","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T14:27:13","slug":"sir-oliver-lodge-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2013\/03\/07\/sir-oliver-lodge-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Oliver Lodge exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just spotted news of a must-see Staffs Uni Science Centre exhibition.  The &#8220;Spirit of Radio Exhibition&#8221; is on the life and work of the Stoke inventor Sir Oliver Lodge (1851-1940).  Lodge was the pioneering inventor on whom I loosely based Miss Merryweather Craft, in my novel <em>The Spyders of Burslem<\/em>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centreofscience.com\/events\/spirit-of-radio\/\">The exhibition<\/a> runs from 19th March &#8211; 22th April 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, there is a further parallel between Lodge and my novel&#8217;s Miss Craft, although I&#8217;m not sure how much the exhibition will feature of that side of Lodge&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;For many years, Lodge had been investigating psychic phenomena&#8230;&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting that the traditional historical mingling of science and superstition could persist right into the 20th century.  There&#8217;s a fascinating book-length history of such unexpected co-minglings, <em>Techgnosis<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just spotted news of a must-see Staffs Uni Science Centre exhibition. The &#8220;Spirit of Radio Exhibition&#8221; is on the life and work of the Stoke inventor Sir Oliver Lodge (1851-1940). Lodge was the pioneering inventor on whom I loosely based Miss Merryweather Craft, in my novel The Spyders of Burslem. The exhibition runs from 19th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}