The actual laboratory where Michael Faraday made his fundamental discoveries of the magneto-optical effect and of diamagnetism
Isolated for the first time in 1825 this hydrocarbon is now an important raw material in manufacturing dyes, explosives, rubber
The first electrical battery, invented by Volta in 1800 in Genoa, Italy. This voltaic pile, made before 1813, was presented to
Have you ever wondered why the sky is blue? The answer was first discovered over 150 years ago right here at the Royal
Faraday created a number of iron filing diagrams in 1851 to demonstrate magnetic lines of force.
William Henry Bragg designed and built the first ionization spectrometer in 1912-13. By measuring the scattering of x-rays
Or: An Experimental Lecture on the Powers of Air, a historic cartoon by James Gillray, 1802.