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From rockets to raves

Find out how hydrogen peroxide has been used to do everything from investigate murders and propel rockets to treat teeth and bleach hair.

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The last glass-eye maker in Britain

Meet Jost Haas – the UK’s last artificial-eye maker working exclusively with glass.

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Do you see what I see?

Is reality actually what you see, or just an elaborate illusion?

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Demanding a diagnosis for invisible pain

After dozens of hospital visits and handfuls of painkillers, a plethora of scans and tests bring diagnosis closer for Jaipreet Virdi.

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  • Optics: lens grinding tools and different products with lenses. Engraving by Benard after J.R. Lucotte.
  • Women grind glass lenses while two customers try spectacles on. Coloured line engraving, 1799.
  • Women grind glass lenses while two customers try spectacles on. Coloured line engraving, 1799.
  • Optics: a telescopic microscope, and hand-lenses. Aquatint, 1787 [by R. Laurie after Milne ?].
  • Alcon Softlab : for the disinfection of all soft contact lenses, preservative free, requires no neutralisation.
  • Alcon Softlab : for the disinfection of all soft contact lenses, preservative free, requires no neutralisation.
  • A purple eye or set of lenses (?) with two drooping branches at the sides. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1967.
  • A purple eye or set of lenses (?) with two drooping branches at the sides. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1967.
  • A small case of false eyes, white glass, with blood vessels in red, and vari-coloured lenses. Made by W. Halford of London.
  • A small case of false eyes, white glass, with blood vessels in red, and vari-coloured lenses. Made by W. Halford of London.
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