In 1976 I was contracted to the Geological Mueeum, South Kensington as an audio visual engineer, both servicing existing equipment and designing new displays. In those days all sound was on magnetic tape and pictures projected from slides or cine film.

Over the 8 years I wes there I worked on various new exhibitions including 'Britian Before Man', 'Oil and Gas' 'Brirish Fossils' and 'Treasures of the Earth'. For the Treasures exhibition I developed the first displays controlled by computer, using Commodore 'Pets'. The first ones controlled Carousel projectors but then were further developed for the computer screen to show the images. Later we moved to a computer with a colour screen. Another first was that the program to run the display in 'Treasures' was made on a 12" videodisk.

Later displays were based around the Atari computer with its high resolution colour screen,

Sadly with the advent of the Falklands war NERC (National Environment Research Council) funding was removed and the Geologicasl Museum passed inti the hands of the Natural History Muiseum. My contract was terminated but I continued to work with them on a 'job to job' basis.

Bob Geary was on the design team, a wonderful artist, brilliant charactureist with his sketches of the staff. He did the internal Christmas cards below showing the Design Department staff