Electrical Engineers at Chelmsford Museum

Name: Electrical Engineers at Chelmsford Museum
Start: 2024-11-14T10:00:00+00:00
End: 2024-11-14T12:00:00+00:00
Location: Chelmsford Museum

Schedule

Thu Nov 14 2024 at 10:00 am to 12:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Chelmsford Museum | Chelmsford, EN

In the 1890’s, Marconi and Colonel Crompton set up ground-breaking electrical engineering factories in Chelmsford. Inspired by their work, pupils will take on the role of electrical engineers. They will test their own ideas by conducting experiments and building a variety of different circuits. Through these experiments, they will explore how Crompton and Marconi used electricity to power motors and generate radio waves that enabled communication without being joined by wires.
This hands-on session gives pupils lots of opportunities to generate and test their own ideas as they explore the story of Marconi and Colonel Crompton. Pupils will:
Make electromagnets and carry out fair tests to investigate factors that might affect their strength.
Build a mini motor and generator to power a lighthouse and pulley system.
Construct simple circuits and investigate what happens as they add more components.
Test and sort a variety of electrical conductors and insulators, comparing materials used in the original 1865 transatlantic electric telegraph cable and our modern cables.
Investigate which metals are the best conductors, and are all conductors metal?
Train as Marconi Morse radio operators and discover the link between electricity, radio, Marconi and the Titanic.

£6 per child
limited space