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Blog Michael Faraday's electric motor apparatus
History of science

The birth of electric motion

As we celebrate the bicentenary of Faraday's invention of the electric motor in 1821, our Head of Heritage and Collections

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Video Why Trust Science? - with Naomi Oreskes
History of science

Why Trust Science? - with Naomi Oreskes

Science is continually changing with new findings and discoveries. When people reject these findings, we end up in a position

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Blog S. L. Bragg, Chief Scientist at Rolls-Royce Ltd., gives his Discourse 'Oscillations and Noise in Jet Engines' in 1963. 
History of science

The unheard history of the Friday Evening Discourses

Jane Harrison delves into our archive of audio recordings and explains how you can help preserve this unique legacy of our

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Blog The first ionization spectrometer designed and constructed by William Henry Bragg in 1912-13.
History of science

Spotlight on Kathleen Lonsdale

Kathleen Lonsdale was an Ri scientist, Quaker and pacifist, whose ground-breaking research in crystallography was conducted

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