Ships, Clocks & Stars: Larcum Kendall's Marine Timekeepers - touchscreen exhibit at the National Maritime Museum

Project
touchscreen exhibit at the National Maritime Museum (July 2014)
Client
National Maritime Museum
Agency
Clay Interactive
My role
software developer
Website
rmg.co.uk/whats-on/events/ships-clocks-stars

A fun little (well, 42") touchscreen exhibit that traces the voyages, and tells the history of, the first marine timekeepers developed by watchmaker Larcum Kendall. This one was built using the tools I developed at Clay for another project, but integrates with PaperJS - a great vector graphics framework.

  • HTML + Javascript in Chrome Kiosk mode
  • Paper JS - vector graphics
  • bespoke in-house animation engine - sprite graphics & interactions
  • design by Clay Interactive

"Marking the 300th anniversary of the passing of the Longitude Act in July 1714, Ships, Clocks & Stars told the extraordinary story of the race to determine longitude (east-west position) at sea, helping to save seafarers from terrible fates including shipwreck and starvation."

Ships, Clocks & Stars won the British Society for the History of Science’s Great Exhibitions Competition for 2014.

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