{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/66e17d916a253561efd7dbac/66e17d947fb05edbd0c7009a?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"The Electrophone 🎧","description":"<p>Please welcome to the fireside Tasha Kitcher (@tasha_kitcher), a PhD student at Loughborough University who is researching the electrophone: a Victorian-era streaming device. Tasha talks us through what this nineteenth-century invention promised, who it was targeted towards, and hypothesises on some reasons it didn&apos;t make the grade. She also shares the joys and complexities of taking on such a large project, as well as draws some parallels between the broadcasting-streaming-crossover device and our own covid-related comforts! Stay curious, stay cozy. </p>","author_name":"Clare V. Church"}