Stories
- Long read
Our complicated love affair with light
Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.
- Article
People against pollution
Alice Bell reflects on what happens when communities help solve environmental problems, and whether citizen science can help fight industrial pollution today.
- Article
Making sense of senses lost
In rapid succession, Steve Barker suddenly lost sight and hearing on his left side. The effect on how he perceives the world has been profound.
- Article
What is air, and how do we know?
Watching bubbles in fermenting beer led 18th-century scientist Joseph Priestley to invent sparkling water – and to discover that different gases make up the air we breathe.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Papers on gas and gas lighting
Date: 1906Reference: RET/2/2/12/1/1Part of: The Retreat Archive- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
M0003405: Internal components of an office light / M0003405EB: Office with semi-indirect office gas lighting
Date: 14 March 1933Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/27/91Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Ephemera
- Online
The R.G.L. cooker / Gas Light and Coke Company.
Gas Light and Coke Company.Date: [1935?]- Ephemera
- Online
The New World gas cooker / The Gas Light and Coke Company.
Gas Light and Coke Company.Date: 1935- Ephemera
- Online
The "Mainservor" cooker for immediate delivery / The Gas Light and Coke Company.
Gas Light and Coke Company.Date: [1935?]