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Is it "back to school" for your family today? Keep the fun in #homeschooling with these kitchen experiments ⚗️https://t.co/MqtkpkGcFq
#onthisday 1804 An early locomotive won a bet by hauling 11.24 tons of coal, five wagons and 70 men from Pen-y-darren to Abercynon at a speedy 2.4 mph 🚂 Its designer was Richard Trevithick whose work went on to influence the Stephensons and others 🚂 https://t.co/eu46uj2lyI
#onthisday 1924 Edwin Hubble announced that the spiral nebula Andromeda was actually a galaxy, confirming that the Milky Way is just one of many galaxies in the universe 🌌 He used images like this to classify them https://t.co/PylmcK7lUA 🌌🌌
#onthisday 1842 James Nasmyth patented his steam hammer 🔨 Built at his Patricroft foundry next to the Liverpool and Manchester Railway and the Bridgewater Canal, there's one on display in @sciencemuseum Making the Modern World Gallery https://t.co/VsBOlJDdVv 🔨🔨 #localhistory
@mediamuseum In the realms of 'animals riding things they really shouldn't', we see your dog on a tricycle and we raise you camel on a wheel axel... #FridayFeeling
@TheMERL This is the classic painting by James Nasmyth... (no cows were harmed in the making of)