From Wires to Wifi: How telecommunication technology shaped university life

Join Leeds students as they time travel through innovation, considering how students’ use of technology has changed over time.

From Wires to Wifi uses objects from the Science Museum Group to explore four different ‘eras’ of technology through the lens of university students: from the 19th century to the present day.

Curated by a group of MA students from the University of Leeds: Hannah Drewett, Ren Foster, Jingyi Chen and Ziying Yang.

Visit the exhibition

From Wires to Wifi: How telecommunication technology shaped university life is is one of eight online exhibitions curated by Art Gallery and Museum Studies and Arts Management and Heritage MA students from the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, as part of the Interpretations course module.

A link to the exhibition will be made available here from 11 December.

Image

Science Museum Group. [no date]. Personal Computer, model Apple I (detail). [Accessed 30/11/2025]. Image available under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Licence.