Jul 18, 2024 · We offer free carer tickets for all paid activities and exhibitions. These are currently unavailable to book via the website so you can either book online without carers’ tickets and then email the Contact Centre at [email protected] with your order number, and the team will be able to add free carer tickets onto the order. . Alternatively, you can call the Contact Centre on 033 ...

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Dates Astronights for 7-11s. Friday 14 March 2025—Book tickets (regular and VIP) Friday 16 May 2025 —Book tickets (regular and VIP); Friday 20 June 2025 —Book tickets (regular and VIP) ; Friday 11 July 2025 —Book tickets (regular and VIP); Tickets will …

Sep 18, 2024 · The Russian sociable Carriages were sometimes used for more action-packed entertainment by the upper class. The Hooded Mail Phaeton, is an example of a Phaeton likely designed for racing.It has sturdier grasshopper springs intended for vehicles that are driving fast on rougher country roads such as mail coaches.

Wonderlab encourages visitors to interact with the exhibits through vision, sound and cognitive skills.It is located on Level 3— disabled visitors receive concessionary prices for this gallery. Most of these areas are staffed by Explainers—our professional science communicators who provide personal guidance, explanations and demonstrations on gallery.

Oct 15, 2018 · Like many other infectious diseases, polio spreads from person-to-person through the ingestion of faecal matter, often in food and water. But while improvements in sanitation such as clean water and sewage systems led to the decline of diseases such as typhoid and cholera at the end of the 1800s, outbreaks of polio began to increase.

Oct 14, 2018 · Philip Drinker and Louis Agassiz Shaw invented the first iron lung at Harvard School of Public Health.It consisted of a huge metal box with a set of bellows attached at one end to pump air in and out. The whole body was enclosed in an airtight chamber, apart from the head.

Jun 13, 2018 · The Victorian mental asylum has the reputation of a place of misery where inmates were locked up and left to the mercy of their keepers. But when the first large asylums were built in the early 1800s, they were part of a new, more humane attitude towards mental healthcare.

Dec 10, 2018 · Plate from The Illustrated London News, 24 February 1855, showing Nightingale at work. Florence Nightingale and her nurses saw soldiers suffering from frostbite, dysentery, cholera and typhus living in ‘utterly chaotic, unsanitary and inhumane living conditions’.

Jul 18, 2023 · Charles Babbage first announced the invention of the Difference Engine, his first calculating machine, in a paper read at the Royal Astronomical Society on 14 June 1822, as A note respecting the application of machinery to the calculation of astronomical tables.. This section of Babbage’s Different Engine No. 1, with about 2,000 parts, was built by his engineer and master toolmaker Joseph ...