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Science Museum at Wroughton

Index Science Museum at Wroughton

The Science Museum at Wroughton, near Swindon, England, contains the large-object store of the Science Museum and the Science Museum Library & Archives. [1]

28 relations: Barnes Wallis, Boeing 247, Bouncing bomb, Charles Babbage, Donald Campbell, Douglas DC-3, Edsel, Fleet Street, George Parker Bidder, Handley Page Gugnunc, Humphry Davy, Ian Blatchford, List of museums in Wiltshire, Lockheed Constellation, Pearson plc, Physics of magnetic resonance imaging, Printing press, RAF Wroughton, Rees's Cyclopædia, Science museum, Science Museum Group, Science Museum, London, Swindon, The Grand Tour, Top Gear (2002 TV series), Walt Patterson, Wiltshire, Wroughton.

Barnes Wallis

Sir Barnes Neville Wallis (26 September 1887 – 30 October 1979), was an English scientist, engineer and inventor.

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Boeing 247

The Boeing Model 247 was an early United States airliner, considered the first such aircraft to fully incorporate advances such as all-metal (anodized aluminium) semimonocoque construction, a fully cantilevered wing and retractable landing gear.

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Bouncing bomb

A bouncing bomb is a bomb designed to bounce to a target across water in a calculated manner to avoid obstacles such as torpedo nets, and to allow both the bomb's speed on arrival at the target and the timing of its detonation to be pre-determined, in a similar fashion to a regular naval depth charge.

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Charles Babbage

Charles Babbage (26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871) was an English polymath.

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Donald Campbell

Donald Malcolm Campbell, (23 March 19214 January 1967) was a British speed record breaker who broke eight absolute world speed records on water and on land in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Douglas DC-3

The Douglas DC-3 is a fixed-wing propeller-driven airliner with tailwheel-type landing gear.

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Edsel

Edsel is an automobile marque that was planned, developed, and manufactured by the Ford Motor Company for model years 1958–1960.

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Fleet Street

Fleet Street is a major street in the City of London.

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George Parker Bidder

George Parker Bidder (13 June 1806 – 20 September 1878) was an English engineer and calculating prodigy.

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Handley Page Gugnunc

The Handley Page H.P.39 is a wooden biplane constructed in 1929.

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Humphry Davy

Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet (17 December 177829 May 1829) was a Cornish chemist and inventor, who is best remembered today for isolating, using electricity, a series of elements for the first time: potassium and sodium in 1807 and calcium, strontium, barium, magnesium and boron the following year, as well as discovering the elemental nature of chlorine and iodine.

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Ian Blatchford

Ian Blatchford (born 17 August 1965) is the director of the Science Museum Group, which oversees the Science Museum in London, England and other related museums.

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List of museums in Wiltshire

This list of museums in Wiltshire, England contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.

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Lockheed Constellation

The Lockheed Constellation ("Connie") is a propeller-driven, four-engined airliner built by Lockheed Corporation between 1943 and 1958 at Burbank, California.

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Pearson plc

Pearson plc is a British multinational publishing and education company headquartered in London.

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Physics of magnetic resonance imaging

The physics of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) involves the interaction of biological tissue with electromagnetic fields.

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Printing press

A printing press is a device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium (such as paper or cloth), thereby transferring the ink.

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RAF Wroughton

RAF Wroughton was a Royal Air Force airfield near Wroughton, in Wiltshire, England, about south of Swindon.

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Rees's Cyclopædia

Rees's Cyclopædia, in full The Cyclopædia; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature was an important 19th-century British encyclopædia edited by Rev.

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Science museum

A science museum is a museum devoted primarily to science.

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Science Museum Group

The Science Museum Group (SMG) is a collection of British museums, comprising.

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Science Museum, London

The Science Museum is a major museum on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, London.

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Swindon

Swindon is a large town in Wiltshire, South West England, between Bristol, to the west, and Reading, the same distance east.

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The Grand Tour

The Grand Tour is a British motoring television series for Amazon Video, presented by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May, and produced by Andy Wilman.

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Top Gear (2002 TV series)

Top Gear is a British motoring magazine, factual television series, conceived by Jeremy Clarkson and Andy Wilman, launched on 20 October 2002, and broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC Two.

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Walt Patterson

Walter C Patterson (born November 4, 1936) is a UK-based Canadian physicist and widely-published writer and campaigner on energy.

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Wiltshire

Wiltshire is a county in South West England with an area of.

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Wroughton

Wroughton is a large village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_Museum_at_Wroughton

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