Photograph by Ian Tatlock, 2021, via Manchester Digital Music Archive, artefact 31407. Archive licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Book: The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Astronomy; diagram by Harold Craft.
The original / 1977
The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Astronomy, page 111
The astronomy book page that brought the CP1919 pulse diagram to Joy Division, before Saville adapted it for the sleeve.
- Made by
- Harold D. Craft Jr. / edited by Simon Mitton
- Year
- 1977
- Catalogued
Figure 6.7 on page 111 shows successive pulses from CP1919. The lines are printed in black on the pale page, surrounded by scientific explanation. Saville’s later album sleeve reversed that relationship.
This photograph records the book on display at the Science and Industry Museum’s Use Hearing Protection exhibition in 2021. Ian Tatlock contributed the image to Manchester Digital Music Archive. The book was published in 1977; the archive’s 1979 artefact date refers to its connection with the album.
