Search Results for "Benjamin Franklin"
Benjamin Franklin in the age of AI
history of scienceLouisiane Ferlier reports on the launch of a Featured NotebookLM on the science of Benjamin Franklin, in collaboration with Google Arts & Culture.
Lace-like trophies
history of scienceKatherine Marshall traces the development of nature printing within the history of scientific illustration.
Food, glorious food
history of scienceEllen Embleton tucks into the culinary content of the Royal Society's collections, and discovers some unusual experiments in cookery.
Flying start
history of scienceThe craze for ballooning took off in 1783, but some Fellows of the Royal Society kept their distance, as Vannis Jones Rahi discovers.
Idle hands
history of scienceKeith Moore takes a look at some of the annotations and scribblings found within the Royal Society's collection.
Sea change
history of scienceKeith Moore dives into the stories of swimming Royal Society Fellows, from Lords Byron and Rutherford to Sir James Lighthill, the first person ever to swim around the island of Sark.
Let there be light - and colour!
history of scienceHow many Fellows of the Royal Society can you spot in Raoul Dufy’s fresco ‘La Fée Electricité? Louisiane Ferlier takes a look.