Diagram of the component parts of Baird’s Televisor, from the Library’s collections On the day before the opening of the National Library of Scotland in Kelvin Hall, Glasgow, here is an account of another exciting visual development which was hosted in Kelvin Hall. The Edinburgh Evening News of Thursday 30 January 1930, p. 8 has the following piece: JUNE […]
Author: Catherine Booth
Winner of Costa award: Biography of Alexander von Humboldt
The invention of nature : the adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the lost hero of science / by Andrea Wulf. Winner of Costa Biography award 2015. Why is this man not better known? That is the first thought which came to mind as I began to read this gripping and thoroughly researched biography, which is also a […]
Engaging with the science collections
Photo credit: John Wiley & Sons Cover shows two astronauts beside a spaceship setting up equipment on a moon-like surface Just why do stars appear to twinkle? How are the Moon and tides connected? Did the Moon landing in 1969 really happen, or was it all a big hoax? Explanations of these and other […]