THEME Science, engineering and innovation
Samuel Morse Artist & Inventor April 27th 1791
Samuel Morse, both artist and inventor, brought to the world so many extraordinary gifts
Read MoreThe Use of Antiseptics in Operating Theatres
The problem of infection in operating theatres had been known about from the end of the C18th through the C19th. More people were dying from infections acquired in the operating theatre than were dying of their ailments. Florence Nightingale highlighted the need for a rigorous approach to hospital hygiene and Lister’s work with carbolic, changed…
Read MoreChloroform For Anaesthesia
The miracle of the discovery of chloroform and it’s use as an anaesthetic by James Young Simpson
Read MoreVoyages of Discovery,Tentative Reaches into an Unknown World
The early days of exploration, those voyages of discovery. Did Magellan or one of his ships become the first to reach the Falkland Islands? We will probably never know but he certainly forged the way to the Pacific and beyond
Read MoreOil Production and Supply an Intriguing History
When was it that oil was thought to have a large scale economic value and how is this linked to the near extinction of the sperm whale?
Read MoreFitzroy The Master Meteorologist
Robert Fitzroy, not a name that springs readily to mind, unless you listen to the shipping forecast of course. What role did this C19th sailor play in the foundation of a national meteorological office?
Read MoreBell’s Telephone Archive
Those historically important telephone calls. What a lot we have to be grateful for to Alexander Graham Bell, see his work digitized by the Library of Congress
Read MoreMary Anderson invented what?
Just another one of those intriguing pieces of history and invention that none of us think about anymore.
Read MoreHedy Lamarr Actress and Intriguing Inventor
What is the intriguing connection between actress Hedy Lamarr and the cell phone, you won’t believe it…
Read MoreWhen Science and Religion Clashed at Oxford University
What effect did the debate between science and religion have on the lives of C19th people?
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