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The Royal Institution of Great Britain is an organisation for scientific education and research, based in the City of Westminster. It was founded in 1799 by the leading British scientists of the age,
The Royal Institution building on Albemarle Street, London, c. 1838
A Friday Evening Discourse at the Royal Institution; Sir James Dewar on Liquid Hydrogen by Henry Jamyn Brooks, 1904
Michael Faraday's 1856 Christmas Lecture
The exterior of the Royal Institution in 2011
The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures are a series of lectures on a single topic each, which have been held at the Royal Institution in London each year since 1825. The lectures present scientific
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…engagement with science through a programme of lectures, many of which continue today. The most famous of these were both founded in 1825: the annual Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, and the Friday Evening Discourses. Despite Garnett's first lectures being a great success, his salary was frozen, he was not allowed to practise as a…
A close-up image of a candle showing the wick and the various parts of the flame. Michael Faraday lectured on "The Chemical History of a Candle".
The Lecture Theatre today