Our background and aims

At SEIDAM our aim is simple - to help provide an exciting science education experience for students of all ages studying science as well as for visitors attending science exhibitions of all types. We have over a decade of experience in providing products and services for all sorts of different science events and initiatives.

Whether your interest lies in science education, running outreach projects, making television or radio programmes, or organising lectures and events affiliated with science centres or museums, we have a range of innovative products and services to inspire your audiences.

We've been there!

Our staff have all worked for outreach projects and science centres, reaching audiences in schools, Universities, museums, and even city-centre shopping malls. We understand the importance of providing a dynamic visitor experience through interactive exhibits and displays.

some of our science in a suitcase range
being used to give an electricity show

We thrive on providing a lively audience experience through the presentation of science shows and lectures. Some science props need not be complicated, as our demo props and science in a suitcase ranges show.

Innovation through collaboration

Our larger scale apparatus is almost always stimulated by a collaboration between academia, science centres and also industry.

Through a range of unique projects at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Glasgow, which have brought together academic researchers, teachers, technicians and students, we have developed a suite of lecture demonstration apparatus which we call the Kelvin's Legacy range. The name is inspired by the famous physicist William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) who, while in the chair of Natural Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, pioneered

Lord Kelvin's last lecture in 1899

the use of lecture demonstrations and models to help teach physics to his students.

Some portfolio highlights

We have undertaken many events over the years to help raise public awareness of science and technology. Here are some of the highlights:-

• Our staff led the first team to take a Tesla coil and argon-ion laser to the Orkney Islands off the north coast of Scotland providing a one Megavolt experience, and a unique laser show, for all the school children of the islands.

the Orkney sound and light team

• We have produced the first truly interactive working replica of a Mechanical Television System for the new Glasgow Science Centre - paying tribute to the contributions made to television by local inventor John Logie Baird.
• In our products pages you will find our collapsible Tesla coil - a unique design in the marketplace and the first truly transportable stage presence coil.
• Our unique wine glass resonator gives high quality wine glasses a leading role in their own demise!
• Our suitcase science and lecture demonstration ranges have been showcased for Her Majesty The Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh and other members of the Royal family.
• Our products and services have been commissioned extensively by the BBC and independent television companies, both for science and theatrical use.