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Amy Johnson was the first female pilot to fly alone from Britain to Australia. Discover the story behind this extraordinary flight and the person who made it.
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The time by which we all live is now maintained by incredibly accurate atomic clocks. Find out how they work, why we need their accuracy and how they may become even better in the future.
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Who split the atom and what was its importance? Find out about some famous discoveries that helped determine the structure of the atom.
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Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, conceived in 1834, is one of the startling intellectual feats of the nineteenth century. Trace the story of the man widely regarded as the great ancestral figure of computing.
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Pulley blocks in a ship's rigging may appear insignificant, but the machinery invented to build them at Portsmouth dockyard played a major role in manufacturing history.
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Marie Curie and the history of radioactivity: find out about the extraordinary work of Marie Curie and her family.
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Garrett Morgan was a prolific inventor during the early 20th century. He patented two life-saving inventions, the Safety Hood (an early gas mask) and the first three-way traffic signal. He was also an active campaigner for the rights and welfare of black people.
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Destruction and fatalities due to the elements have occurred throughout our history. Find out how storms have caused us so many problems and what instruments have been invented to try to predict such heavy weather.
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Christiaan Huygens spent years devising new mechanisms to improve timekeeping, including the pendulum and the balance wheel and spring - devices which governed almost all clocks and watches for the next 300 years.
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John Cooke Bourne was a prolific artist and illustrator who pioneered the
realistic depiction of the construction of the railways in Britain. This
Exhiblet explores his work and discusses new research undertaken by the
National Railway Museum in York
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The King George III Collection at the Science Museum is a unique assembly of early apparatus for demonstrating scientific principles. Through these objects scientists were able to disseminate their knowledge of the 'new science'.
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The period between the fourmation of the "big four" railway companies in 1923 and nationalisation in 1947 was a golden age of graphic design. This exhiblet celebrates the art of the Southern Railway's publicity department.
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The invention of the typewriter had little initial impact on those who only trusted their pens. Yet as acceptance grew, so the machine became a stimulus for changes in the workplace, and an icon of a time before the personal computer.
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Find out about the development of early public clocks, from the 14th century examples at Salisbury and Wells to the 19th century mechanism which operates Big Ben.
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