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WEBThe 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 close 30 minutes before the museum closes.
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WEBThe museum online shop. Shop science kits, homeware, robotics and more online. Every purchase supports the museum. The home of human ingenuity, come and visit award-winning exhibitions, iconic objects and stories of incredible scientific achievement for free.
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WEBCategory: Exhibition. Thursday 12 December 2024 – Monday 21 April 2025. The Palace of Versailles is famous around the world for its opulent architecture and rich history. In this illuminating new exhibition, we'll show how it was also home to some of the most significant scientific innovations of the 17th and 18th century. Book now.
Bubonic plague: the first pandemic - Science Museum
WEBApr 25, 2019 — 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 Nowroji Hill district, a Goan doctor called Acacio Viegas was the first to identify the disease as bubonic plague.
The invention of mobile phones | Science Museum
WEBIn 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, each of which would contain a base station. These base stations would send and receive messages from mobile phones over radio frequencies.
Joseph Lister’s antisepsis system - Science Museum
WEBOct 14, 2018 — Joseph Lister, 1827–1912. Joseph Lister found a way to prevent infection in wounds during and after surgery. He was the first to apply the science of Germ Theory to surgery. Lister's Antisepsis System is the basis of modern infection control. His principles made surgery safe and continue to save countless lives.
The Microscope - Science Museum
WEBAug 19, 2019 — The EM2/1 electron microscope was made in Manchester in 1947. Science Museum Group Collection. Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) The scanning electron microscope, or SEM, uses electrons rather than light for image formation. The sample is dehydrated and coated with a thin layer of a conductive material, such as gold.
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WEBThe museum is open 10.00–18.00, seven days a week (last entry 17.15). Galleries start to close 30 minutes before the museum closes. Tickets are currently available to book up until Sunday 20 October 2024. Sign up to our newsletter for the latest on when new dates will be going live. If you have any further questions, please see our re-opening ...
Smallpox and the story of vaccination | Science Museum
WEBSmallpox vaccination is based on a thousand-year old technique called inoculation, in which a small sample of infected matter is deliberately introduced into the body in order to prevent the full disease from developing. A vaccine stops you from getting an infectious disease by stimulating your body's immune system to produce chemicals called ...
Ahoy! Alexander Graham Bell and the first telephone call
WEBOn 7 March 1876, Bell was granted US patent 174465A, for a method of transmitting speech by telegraphy—the telephone. The decision has been disputed by scholars ever since, although a 2020 paper by Benjamin Lathrop Brown has argued that recently unearthed archival sources prove Bell’s priority. Whether this will finally settle a 150-year ...
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