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 ...

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.

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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.

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.

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.

Apr 25, 2019 · The impact of the bubonic plague epidemics of the past still echo across the centuries, reminding us of the devastation that disease can inflict on communities. The Black Death is the name given to the first wave of the plague that swept across Europe in the 1300s.

Experience Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar in captivating IMAX 70mm. Free entry Open daily, 10.00–18.00 Science Museum Exhibition Road

Apr 25, 2019 · Smallpox and vaccination are intimately connected. Edward Jenner developed the first vaccine to prevent smallpox infections, and this success led to the global eradication of smallpox and the development of many more life-saving vaccines.

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.