For the cost of just a shilling visitors to Victorian London's famed Royal Polytechnic Institution could witness a marriage of science and spectacle. Inside the hall, John Henry Pepper and his colleagues blended education and entertainment, bringing the mysteries of science to everyday Londoners through lectures, hair-raising displays of scientific equipment, and visions of the exotic, absurd, and strange.
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机译：只需花费先令，参观维多利亚女王时代著名的皇家理工学院的游客便可以见证科学与奇观的结合。在大厅里，约翰·亨利·佩珀（John Henry Pepper）和他的同事们将教育与娱乐融为一体，通过讲座，科学设备的梳妆台以及异国，荒诞和陌生的景象，将科学的奥秘带给了每天的伦敦人。
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