1966 · Amateur Satellite Tracking · Work 1263 of 1,871
The physics laboratory of a grammar school in the English Midlands on a grey March morning, rain on the windows and a wire aerial strung between two red-brick buildings outside, on the bench a tin child's globe on a black stand with a round chipped tin foot, turquoise seas and yellow, pink and green land on an unlettered map, a thin copper-brown wire ring slanting around the sphere, clamped at the top with a black foldback clip, beside it a grey short-wave receiver with a blank dial window, a pencil on squared paper with curves, two schoolboys in dark blazers seen from directly behind, faces turned fully away, one turning the globe.