• Four street musicians wearing dark coats and hats, with red scarves and accents, perform on a city street in front of parked cars. They play a trombone, trumpet, banjo, and sousaphone.

Modernism and Lost Technology

Poetry aficionados, media archaeologists and scholars of modernism might have heard of the ‘godfather of the e-reader’ Bob Brown, and his infamous ‘Reading Machine’ – but his wife Rose is an equally compelling figure. In fact, her story changes how we understand the connections between technological and literary innovation, and their capacity to promote social change, and with one exception, it has remained untold.