1966: OHPs

Between 1982 and 1985, I did my degree at Huddersfield Polytechnic with some excellent lecturers - some of whom are still working, as they were young at the time. They included Tim Burt, David Butcher, John Fernie, Stuart Corbridge, Lance Tufnell, Ian Couch, Alan Pitkethly (a legend), Derek Reeve and Jim Wrathall. Many of these went on to even greater things after Huddersfield gave them a perfect place to experiment and develop their craft. I have bumped into some of them as the years have gone by. I liked coming across their work in various journals.

Here's a piece from Jim Wrathall 17 years before I was taught by him, while working at a college in Huddersfield. It describes a brand new technology which promised to change things for teachers. It was called, the overhead projector....



References
WRATHALL, J. E. “The Overhead Projector — A New Aid for the Geographer.” Geography, vol. 51, no. 1, 1966, pp. 38–41. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40566039

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