Discoveries Category
Capt. Henry J. Round, ‘the tame wizard’
Staffordshire-born Henry Joseph Round (1881-1966) lived and breathed engineering and was affectionately nicknamed ‘the tame wizard’ by…
Dinosauria
The first dinosaur bone to be identified as such, albeit 166 years later, was dug up in…
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, compiler of the first atomic theory, was also the first scientist to…
The double-helix of DNA
Dr. Francis Crick (1916-2004) was born in Northamptonshire and was one of three scientists awarded the 1962…