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Gray and gold

history of science
Virginia Mills
17 August 2020
4 mins

Virginia Mills reviews the career of Stephen Gray FRS, ‘father of electricity’ and first recipient of the Royal Society's Copley Medal.

Perpetual motion

history of science
Virginia Mills
24 September 2018
5 mins

Virginia Mills looks back through the archives at attempts to solve an impossible problem.

Circus of science

history of science
Keith Moore
18 September 2014
5 mins

Visitors to the Royal Society's home in the eighteenth century included a strongman, a talking dog, and the original snake-oil salesman.