Tag: History of Science

Florence Nightingale and Thomas Edison stand side by side, their glowing oil lantern and incandescent electric bulb almost touching. A golden ribbon of light flows from the two lamps into a brilliant blue starburst above the illuminated Earth, symbolising the evolution of light from nursing and electrical invention to the scientific measurement of distance.

Lighting the Way

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There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” — Edith Wharton What connects a Victorian nurse, an American inventor and the speed of light? The answer is 21 October — a date that takes us from the battlefields of the Crimean War to the birth of […]

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