url
	https://explore.saltairecollection.org/s/p/item/4461
dcterms:created
	1871
dcterms:description
	A copy of a report from the Saltaire Magazine of 1871 of the first lecture to be held in the Saltaire Club and Institute on 18 January . The lecture was given by W.F. Barrett of London on the subject of 'Electricity and the Electric Telegraph'.

The article reports that there were 600 people present. The lecturer demonstrated ideas using successful experients.

Half the article is taken up with a condemnation of the actions of 'boys' in the audience who had 'chewed tobacco, and polluted the floor in several parts of the hall with their filthy spittals'.
dcterms:format
	printed
dcterms:identifier
	D1-003
dcterms:references
	https://explore.saltairecollection.org/s/p/item/13698 Saltaire Club and Institute
dcterms:relation
	https://explore.saltairecollection.org/s/p/item/8011 Victoria Hall, Saltaire, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
dcterms:subject
	Education
dcterms:title
	Lecture at the Saltaire Institute
dcterms:type
	newspaper cutting

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