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Bringing biotech to the people

Amateur scientists have inspired all kinds of frightening scenarios, from Frankenstein’s monster to ‘The Fly’ and ‘Breaking Bad’. But it can be a force for good. Today’s DIYbio enthusiasts are having fun – and even making lucrative breakthrough discoveries.

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The relationship between science and art

Often seen as opposites, science and art both depend on observation and synthesis.

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Charged bodies

Electrified humans brought education and performance together with a spark in the 18th century.

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Eels and feels

For Georgian Londoners, the allure of electric animals was both intellectual and sensual.

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  • Flying machines with propellers in the air. Wood engraving.
  • Men with various flying machines strapped to them. Engraving.
  • Types of steam-driven vehicles and flying machines. Colour process print after Robert Seymour, ca. 1830.
  • The flying machine of Thomas Moy. Watercolour.
  • A large flying machine with sails and propellers is travelling over a town. Colour lithograph by W.L. Walton.
  • A man flying above a church with wings and balloons attached to him. Coloured wood engraving, 1877.
  • A man flying above a church with wings and balloons attached to him. Coloured wood engraving, 1877.
  • A man flying in a frame with wings attached and covering him; in the distance, a balloon. Wood engraving, 1874 (?).
  • Aeroplanes with large movable wings. Process print.
  • Two Scotsmen flying on a witch's broomstick from Edinburgh to London; representing Scots usurping the positions of southerners under the government of Lord Bute. Etching by P. Sandby, 1762.
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