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Socks are not just for Christmas!

Posted by: Wendy Jacob, Posted on: 24 December 2015 - Categories: Education and training, History, People, Science and Technology

If you received a gift of a pair of socks this Christmas, you may reflect for a moment on the importance of these small articles of clothing and a history of innovation. In 1914-18, protecting soldiers from trench foot meant …

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Medical advances in World War 1

Posted by: Wendy Jacob, Posted on: 11 November 2015 - Categories: History, People, Science and Technology

The figures were high – 244,1673 killed, wounded, missing and prisoners on the British sector of the Western Front from February 1915 - October 1918. As the technology of warfare developed during WW1, causing death and injury that had not been …

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Henry Moseley: A Scientist Lost to War

Posted by: Wendy Jacob, Posted on: 8 November 2015 - Categories: History, People, Science and Technology

Henry ‘Harry’ Moseley was an exceptionally promising young English physicist in the years immediately before World War I. His work on the X-ray spectra of the elements provided a new foundation for the Periodic Table and contributed to the development …

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Poppy power past and present - some science of ceramics

Posted by: Wendy Jacob, Posted on: 8 August 2014 - Categories: History, Science and Technology

At the Tower of London, 888,246 ceramic poppies – one for each British and colonial fatality of the First World War - are being added to every day by a team of over 8,000 volunteers, including military personnel. The last …

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