Discoveries Category
Aeroacoustics
With air travel increasing in popularity in the early 1950s, scientists were faced with the new problem…
Triton, Hyperion, Ariel and Umbriel
Lancashire-born William Lassell (1799-1880) grew up in Liverpool within a clock-making family, acquiring the precision engineering skills…
Flinders Petrie, pioneer of Egyptology
Sir W.M. Flinders Petrie (1853-1942) did not know his grandfather, Lincolnshire-born Captain Matthew Flinders (1774-1814), who was…
West Kennet Long Barrow
West Kennet Long Barrow (WKLB), near the Avebury stone circles in Wiltshire, is one of 180 barrows…
The Falklands Conflict
The Falkland Islands are a British Overseas Territory just north of the British Antarctic Territory and south-east…
Stephen Hawking’s universe
Oxford-born cosmologist Professor Stephen Hawking (1942-2018) said:“Look up at the stars and not at your feet. Try…
British Antarctic Territory
Britain’s two tallest mountains by far ~ Mount Hope (10,627ft.) and Mount Jackson (10,446ft.) ~ sit within…
Silicone
It is hard to imagine life today without the multitudinous ways in which silicone is employed, from…
Colour blindness
John Dalton* (1766-1844) from Cumberland was the first scientist to study colour blindness, after discovering it in…
The double-helix of DNA
Dr. Francis Crick (1916-2004) was born in Northamptonshire and was one of three scientists awarded the 1962…
Parkinson’s Disease
Dr. James Parkinson (1755-1824) from London was quite the polymath, making strides not only in medicine but…
Everest & the mapping of India
By 1871 the mapping of India was the most detailed of any country in the world, thanks…