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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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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.
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.
The Age of Plastic: From Parkesine to pollution | Science Museum
WEBThe 20th and 21st centuries have justifiably been dubbed the Plastics Age, such is the influence and ubiquity of this family of materials. Plastics pervade all aspects of society. We sleep on plastic-filled pillows, clean our teeth with plastic toothbrushes, type on plastic keyboards, drink and eat food from plastic containers—it’s ...
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.
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 ...
Thalidomide | Science Museum
WEBThalidomide is a compound that was developed in the 1950s by the West German pharmaceutical company Chemie Grünenthal GmbH. It was originally intended as a sedative or tranquiliser but was soon used for treating a wide range of other conditions, including colds, flu, nausea and morning sickness in pregnant people.
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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 ...
How was penicillin developed? - Science Museum
WEBFeb 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 penicillin. The team finally had enough penicillin to start animal trials. In 1940, eight mice were infected with deadly streptococci bacteria.