Stories
- Article
The art of scientific glassblowing
Exciting things happen when art, craft, engineering and science collide. Glassblower Gayle Price is proof of that.
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Eels and feels
For Georgian Londoners, the allure of electric animals was both intellectual and sensual.
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Intelligence testing, race and eugenics
Specious ideas and assumptions about intelligence that were born during the great flourishing of eugenics well over 100 years ago still inform the British education system today, as Nazlin Bhimani reveals.
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Acid and the sexual psychonauts
How LSD fuelled one woman’s journey of sexual self-discovery in the late 1950s.
Catalogue
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Jencons (Scientific) Limited : apparatus and instruments for science and industry, laboratory, medical and glassworking equipment.
Jencons (Scientific) Limited.Date: [1994?]
- Ephemera
- Online
Jencons (Scientific) Limited : apparatus and instruments for science and industry, laboratory, medical and glassworking equipment.
Jencons (Scientific) Limited.Date: [1994?]
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A descriptive list of anthropometric apparatus : consisting of instruments for measuring and testing the chief physical apparatus of the human body : designed under the direction of Francis Galton, and manufactured and sold by the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company.
Date: 1887
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Jencons (Scientific) Limited : apparatus & instruments for science & industry, research, medical & glassworking equipment : office and works Cherrycourt Way Industrial Estate, Stanbridge Road, Leighton Buzzard.
Jencons (Scientific) Limited.Date: [1994]- Archives and manuscripts
[Equipment and apparatus]
Date: 1914-1923Reference: WA/BSR/BA/Sci/A.4Part of: Wellcome Bureau of Scientific Research