Great Exhibition Preview

05/06/2022

A meteor shower will be visible in the sky beginning Thursday night, and this one features a particularly unique phenomenon.

01/31/2022

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Take a look at the lost palace in all its Victorian splendour

12/22/2021

Mary Ann Evans, writing as George Eliot was a highly acclaimed Victorian novelist, author of 'Middlemarch', 'Silas Marner', 'Daniel Deronda'…

12/04/2021

Maria Mitchell (/məˈraɪə/;[1] August 1, 1818 – June 28, 1889) was an American astronomer, librarian, naturalist, and educator.[2] In 1847, she discovered a comet named 1847 VI (modern designation C/1847 T1) that was later known as “Miss Mitchell’s Comet” in her honor.[3] She won a gold m...

11/08/2021

The Victorian era was a time full of interesting fads and ideas. The Victorians would play dangerous party games and embellish their clothing and jewelry with birds and bugs.They valued marriage and family above everything, but would bid their wives off as opposed to filing for divorce. Here are jus...

10/18/2021

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08/03/2021

In 1862 Union soldier Samuel Decker was reloading his gun when it misfired and blew off half of both his arms. By 1865 he had designed and overseen the building of a set of state-of-the-art prosthetic limbs "hitherto unrivaled for ingenuity and utility." With his new arms, he was able to feed and clothe himself as well as perform even more challenging tasks such as picking up objects as small as a pin and regaining the ability to write. In 1867 he was invited to the Army Medical Museum where he sat for photos so that he and his invention could be documented. 🖤

03/14/2021

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02/10/2021

Today is Dmitri Mendeleev’s birthday! He is best known for creating one of the most iconic emblems in all of modern science: the periodic table of the elements.
Born in 1834 in Siberia, Russia, Dmitri Mendeleev overcame a challenging childhood to become both a teacher and an academic chemist in St. Petersburg, publishing 400 books and articles throughout his life.
In 1860, he was invited to Karlsruhe, Germany for the first-ever international chemistry conference, which highlighted the need to standardize chemistry and had a great influence on Mendeleev’s work. Determined to find a better way to classify elements, he formulated the periodic law, which states that many properties of elements tend to recur in a systematic manner with increasing atomic number. Although not immediately accepted, his work gained international attention when elements he predicted were discovered. His diagram, known as the periodic table of elements, is widely used today and is a cornerstone of modern chemistry.
The table has grown over time, but Mendeleev’s periodic law has held true.