Can you see the music? Louis Bertrand Castel-natural philosopher who proposed the creation of an "ocular harpsichord" that emitted color rather than sound-is 's Scientist of the Day! https://t.co/QKsjZQp9xF

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W H Preece, the telegraph, telephone and wireless radio pioneer, a great Welsh scientist, was appointed GPO Engineer-in-Chief and Electrician 1892. He was an early mentor of Marconi https://t.co/YVguoq9LIo

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William Swainson-British ornithologist-is 's Scientist of the Day! () https://t.co/U8WMzX1dBn

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Rosalind Franklin-scientist who studied structure was b 1920! See her in 's exhibit, Connecting the Dots!

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Pictures of hot air balloon accidents: or, falling to your death is a real possibility https://t.co/6ozWwbPF0M

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BT opened the first System X processor-controlled digital switching system telephone exchange in London 1 July 1980

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New CFP: Contours of the Future: Technology & Innovation in Cultural Context https://t.co/YHPf6KaZ6r

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Mildred Cohn achieved what few women in her time could: a successful career in chemistry https://t.co/Tr1v0oM6pq

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Drones of the future, Popular Mechanics, 1934 /#Aviation

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Spotted on the wall of 's communications office: more thylacines!

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Another lizard from Maria Merian's Metamorphosis insectorum...(1705)

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Earning good karma on w/this chameleon from Belon's De Aquatilibus (1553) HT

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Celebrate w/2 plates from 's copy of Daubenton's Histoire naturelle (1763)

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Before Audubon, there was Alexander Wilson (b. 1766) & his American (HT )

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2 sharks from 's copy of Matthew Perry's 1856 account of his expedition to Japan!

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Cecilia Payne-"Science Sleuth of History", b. 1900-as illustrated by . (HT )

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Isambard Brunel-civil engineer extraordinaire-b. 1806! Bio via : https://t.co/e37ls4ocgW

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1st Newtonian color wheels in an art manual, in 1708 edition of Boutet https://t.co/JPiHFKeaEl

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