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Science Museum, London opened a gallery called The Information Age in 2014, which features, amongst other exhibits tracing the evolution of the information age, a special section devoted to LEO, including recordings of a teashop manageress reflecting on the changes the Teashop Job (L3) made to her life.

The museum's LEO holdings can be seen on their website. Their ICL Archive also contains items of relevance to the history of LEO Computers.
 
Please Note: This item is not in our collection and is included here for signposting purposes only.

Timeline for Science Museum :

Date Event
0001 C. 100 BC Ancient Greeks build the Antikythera mechanism
1666 Samuel Morland builds a mechanical calculator
5 Jun 1833 Ada Lovelace meets Charles Babbage
Dec 1837 Charles Babbage publishes a paper describing the Analytical Engine
21 Jan 1888 Babbage's Analytical Engine operates for the first time
19 Feb 1946 Alan Turing proposes the Automatic Computing Engine, or ACE
21 Jun 1948 The Manchester Baby, the world's first stored program computer, runs its first program
29 Nov 1949 Professor Bill Phillips unveils MONIAC at the LSE
23 Mar 1956 The first Ferranti Pegasus goes into service
Sep 1964 CDC 6600 is introduced
29 Oct 1969 ARPANET launches the world's first packet-switched wide area computer network
15 Nov 1971 Intel launches the 4004, the first microprocessor
25 Jul 1973 UK connects to ARPANET
12 Apr 1974 Intel introduces the 8080 microprocessor
8 Jan 1976 Science Museum open its Computer gallery to the public
May 1980 News Article : Challenge to schools
16 Jul 1993 Commodore announces the Amiga CD32 game console
25 Oct 2014 Queen Elizabeth II opens Information Age gallery at the Science Museum


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