RMG History of Science internships: 2004–2011

The following is a list of previous interns and projects at the Museum, with an indication of outputs produced, in addition to a submitted report on the research undertaken.

2011

2010

2009

  • Blakemore, Richard, Navigating Culture: Early Modern Navigational Instruments as Cultural Artefacts (outputs: research seminar NMM, conference paper, published article forthcoming in Journal for Maritime History)
  • Helling, Colin, The Search for a Naval Rangefinder, 1880–1905
  • Kay, Michael, The Weigel Globe (outputs: research seminar NMM)
  • Tirapicos, Luis, Reflecting Telescopes: from British Makers to Portuguese Astronomers and Students
  • Wilson, Lydia, Study of Four Arabic Astrolabes in NMM Collection

2008

  • Belknap, Geoff, Photography, the Press, and Popular Science in the 1874 Transit of Venus Enterprise (outputs: chapter in PhD thesis, research seminar NMM)
  • Marchesetti, Andrea, The Society for Opposing the Endowment of Research: George Biddell Airy and His Role in the Debate on the State Funding of Research (outputs: research seminar NMM)
  • Paskins, Mat, Henry Constantine Jennings (outputs: research seminar NMM)
  • Raposo, Pedro, The Royal Observatory, Greenwich: a House of Science or a Scientific House? (outputs: blog post: http://www.nmm.ac.uk/blogs/collections/2008/09/the_royal_observatory_greenwich.html) and chapter in PhD dissertation.
  • Zuroski, Emma, Chinese Compasses (outputs: improved object descriptions, published article in Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society)

2007

  • Carrington, Peter, ‘All things which need to be known’: an Investigation into the Arabic Book The Book of Routes and Regions by Al-Istakhri at the National Maritime Museum (outputs: research seminar NMM)
  • Cooper, John, A History of Maritime Radar: Technology and the Human Element (outputs: research seminar NMM, published article in Navigation News)
  • Pilkington, Helen-Frances, Revamping One’s Library: the Airy Restoration at the Royal Observatory 1835–1840 (outputs: research seminar NMM)
  • Taylor, Katie, The World in Your Pocket: a Study of Pocket Globes (outputs: section entry for Collections Online)

2006

2005

2004

  • Jamieson, Annie, The History and Historiography of the Artificial Horizon (outputs: research seminar NMM; draft article cited in Willem Mörzer Bruyns, Sextants at Greenwich)
  • Reeves, Nicky, Investigating an Astronomer’s Library: Nevil Maskelyne and the Geography of Information Exchange, 1765–1811 (outputs: research seminar NMM)