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Description: Influenced by a collection of museum artifacts, 'Objects to See Further' takes place in 1871, and tells fragments of the interlinked stories of four lesser-known pioneers. In this year Robert Stirling Newall, an inventor of telegraphic cable, installed the worlds largest refracting telescope at his home in Gateshead (now housed at the National Observatory of Athens). At the same time, the Nine Hours strike was beginning, a protest over the length of the factory working day, led by John Burnett a
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