Dan Dare and the Birth of Hi-tech Britain

Exhibition
Times: 22 May 2020 - 25 Oct 2020 Daily 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM Closed 24 - 26 Dec 2020
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.
Showing at
Science Museum
times: 22 May 2020 - 25 Oct 2020 Daily 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM Closed 24 - 26 Dec 2020

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