Cartoon, Speaking Tubes, by Marc Foden 1991. Original...
Cartoon, Speaking Tubes, by Marc Foden 1991. Original artwor
Cartoon, Speaking Tubes, by Marc Foden 1991. Original artwork for the Charles Babbage exhibition, Science Museum 1991, section on the art of the possible, reflecting a calculation by Babbage that if this domestic system of communicating between rooms were applicable for further distances it would take 17 minutes for a spoken word to travel from London to Liverpool. Ink on paper 30x21cm.