December

Our blog brings you voices across the organisation to reveal a new side to the Ri - from hidden gems in the archive to the latest schools event.

“I am now more melancholy than usual”

Posted by
Wahida Amin
Date posted
17.12.2013
Humphry Davy

Humphry Davy (1778-1829) is remembered as one of the most charismatic chemists of the early nineteenth century. But what do his notebooks and letters tell us about his final years?

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The gyroscope, an engineer and the CHRISTMAS LECTURES

Posted by
Frank James
Date posted
10.12.2013
Eric Laithwaite delivering CHRISTMAS LECTURES

Eric Laithwaite was a British electrical engineer and presenter of the 1974 CHRISTMAS LECTURES who sparked a controversial debate with his unconventional views on the behaviour of gyroscopes.

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