Steve Holland reports that the Science Museum in London will be hosting an exhibition entitled Dan Dare and the Birth of Hi-Tech Britain from Wednesday 30th April to Sunday October 25th. From the official description:
“Dan Dare’s rocket fleet roars high over Venus to trounce his arch foe – the power-mad Mekon. Meanwhile, back on Earth, another extraordinary future is unfolding – one which laid the foundation for Britain’s hi-tech consumer society. After 1945, though war-weary and broke, Britain found huge pride in wartime advances such as radar, penicillin and the jet engine. Discoveries like these were now tipped to kick-start world-beating industries, bring prosperity and bankroll the emerging welfare state.
In an age before globalisation, products from rockets to radios sprang from local roots. Together they reveal a fascinating ‘lost world’ of British design and invention – a glimpse of a time when the TV in the corner was a Murphy, not a Sony.”
The Science Museum also has a Wiki up where they are starting to post on some of the exhibits, which as well as then hi-tech gadgets appearing to consumers after the war years, include Frank Hampson’s idea book, some murals he he created for the museum and story boards by Dan Dare artists, including one by Don Harley seen here (borrowed from the Science Museum’s Wiki page):
Sun, Apr 27, 2008
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