Science Museum

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Reception Augusta Ada Byron
On the date designated as Ada Lovelace Day, a small exhibition opened at the Science Museum in London. The portraits, letters, and artefacts on display include a Jacquard loom of the punchcard type that...
Health Constance Naden
While in India CN contracted a serious fever, which kept [her] a prisoner
Hughes, William Richard et al. Constance Naden: A Memoir. Bickers and Son, 1890.
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for seven weeks. She had been ill before this, and had been barred from scientific studies for some weeks by a...

Timeline

1899: The South Kensington Museum divided into...

National or international item

1899

The South Kensington Museum divided into the Science Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum .
Gascoigne, Robert Mortimer. A Chronology of the History of Science, 1450-1900. Garland, 1987.
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Texts

Swade, Doron. Charles Babbage and his Calculating Engines. Science Museum, 1991.