Have you ever wondered why the sky is blue? The answer was first discovered over 150 years ago right here at the Royal
Faraday created a number of iron filing diagrams in 1851 to demonstrate magnetic lines of force.
William Henry Bragg designed and built the first ionization spectrometer in 1912-13. By measuring the scattering of x-rays
Or: An Experimental Lecture on the Powers of Air, a historic cartoon by James Gillray, 1802.
In 1859, discovered the Greenhouse Effect using this tube amongst a collection of apparatus by measuring the absorptive powers
Explore the history of groundbreaking scientific research at the Ri.
The electromagnet used by Michael Faraday in a ground-breaking experiment showing that light and glass are affected by magnetism