Bubonic plague: the first pandemic | Science Museum
An international vaccine for a pandemic disease. From Hong Kong the epidemic spread to the major Indian ports. When the plague broke out in Bombay in colonial India in 1893, in the …
Flushed away: Sewers through history | Science Museum
Feb 2, 2021 · Samuel Pepys, Diary entry (20 October 1660) The famous London diarist Samuel Pepys’ messy encounter with his neighbours’ turds reveals the unpleasant realities of sewage …
The Microscope - Science Museum
Aug 19, 2019 · The EM2/1 electron microscope was made in Manchester in 1947. Science Museum Group Collection. Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) The scanning electron …
Home | Science Museum
Category: The museum online shop. Shop science kits, homeware, robotics and more online. Every purchase supports the museum. Click to read more. The home of human ingenuity, …
Visit | Science Museum, London
The museum is open daily from 10.00–18.00 (last entry 17.15). You are welcome to stay in the museum as long as you like, but an average visit lasts around two hours. Galleries start to …
How was penicillin developed? - Science Museum
Feb 23, 2021 · Florey, Chain and members of the Oxford penicillin team. After three years of trial and error, they developed a successful but painfully inefficient process that produced pure …
Cholera in Victorian London - Science Museum
Science Museum Group Collection Image source for Edwin Chadwick. Edwin Chadwick, c.1860. The first appearance of cholera in 1831 was followed in 1837 and 1838 by epidemics of …
Halley's Comet: Collisions with history | Science Museum
The science of Halley's Comet. The most sighted comet—and possibly the most influential to human history—is 1P/Halley, also known as simply ‘Halley’s Comet’. 1P/Halley is a ‘periodic’ …
The invention of mobile phones | Science Museum
In the 1970s, researchers at Bell Labs in the USA began to experiment with the concept of a cellular phone network. The idea was to cover the country with a network of hexagonal cells, …
A Victorian Mental Asylum - Science Museum
Jun 13, 2018 · Replica of a restraint harness from the 1800s. The original was discovered in a chest in Hanwell Asylum in the 1930s. Science Museum Group Collection. William Norris, …
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