health and safety – Robin’s Nest

Even the man on a Clapham omnibus could understand these basic instructions

You never know what you’ll find on an instruction sheet when you buy a gadget. Once upon a time it would identify the component parts and explain what each part did. If it was made in the UK it would have assembly instructions (if it needed assembling) and operating instructions. These would be written inContinue reading “Even the man on a Clapham omnibus could understand these basic instructions”

Nature’s infinite book of secrecy

Shakespeare knew that nature hides many secrets and that *man* (or in Antony and Cleopatra the Soothsayer) would be forever trying to seek them out. *man* please forgive this sexist reference but at the time science was, wrongly, seen as a male preserve. By the 1950s young boys were being persuaded to show an interestContinue reading “Nature’s infinite book of secrecy”