TV WATCH Digging up stories behind the finds at the museum; Masterpieces of the British Museum BBC4.(Television program review)

From: The Evening Standard (London, England) | Date: June 15, 2006 | Copyright information

Byline: VICTOR LEWIS-SMITH

WELCOME to my Museum of the Recently Defunct, where we commemorate sights, sounds and objects that were once an everyday experience, but have now vanished from our lives. Here in the technology section you can relive the thrill of threading a paper-backed roll of 120 monochrome film into a Box Brownie camera, imprecisely calculate the square root of pi with a slide rule, or nostalgically sniff the ink on a red-and-black typewriter ribbon, while...

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