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91TV Library has acquired the scientific papers of David Jones, or 'Daedalus', whose research topics ranged from bicycle stability and the ‘burning mirrors’ of Archimedes to the arsenic in Napoleon's wallpaper.

In the latest in our series of public engagement case studies Amalia Thomas takes us into the world of photoelasticity. Amalia is a PhD student at the University of Cambridge and is supervised by Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow Nathalie Vriend.

Dr. Leigh Fletcher is a University Research Fellow at the University of Leicester specialising in the exploration of the extreme weather and climate on planets throughout our Solar System.

Dr Tiffany Taylor is a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow at the University of Bath and author of two fiction books that explain the concept of evolution to children.

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