Instruments & Innovation

Figure 7. Blowpipe, self-acting Spirit for bending glass tubes, Tin.
Figure 8. Blowpipe, self-acting in brass with sliding Lamp.
Figure 9. Blowpipe, Glassblower's Table, with double bellows, jets, lamp, and stand,…

Figure 20. Furnace, Round Iron, very useful.
Figure 21. Furnace, Dr. Black's.
Figure 22. Furnace, on Professor Brande's Principle, made to order, price according to size.
Figure 23. Pair of large Pepy's Copper…

Figure 28. Lamps, Berzelius's portable Blowpipe.
Figure 29. Lamp, Cooper's for heating Tubes.
Figure 30. Lamp, Davy's Safety.
Figure 31. Lamp, Farraday's, with four wicks, as recommended in his chemical manipulations.…

Figure 39. Mercurial Troughs, iron, very superior with Pepy's Gasometer attached.
Figure 40. Palmer's Gas Lamp for heating tubes, which screws on to a common gas pillar.
Figure 41. Palmer's Chemical Amusement and…

Figure 50. Retort Stand large, brass, with tubulated retort, receiver.
Figure 51. Scales, Chemical, with decimal weights to the tenth of a grain, brass pans, warranted to weigh accurately to the tenth of a grain.

These…

Figure 58. Best Wheel Barometer with Thermometer & Spirit Level, plain mounted.
Figure 59. Best Wheel Barometer with screw Hygrometer, rosewood inlaid with pearl and German silver fittings, very elegant.
Figure 60. Upri…

Seymour Meyerson was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois and attended the University of Chicago from which he received his undergraduate degree. By 1943 Meyerson began active service with the US military, spending the…

Keith R. Jennings begins his oral history by discussing his youth and education in the United Kingdom, including his chemistry studies at University of Oxford, where he worked with Jack Wilfrid Linnett, and his…

Frank H. Field was raised in Cliffside Park, New Jersey, by an aunt, an uncle, and a grandmother. He entered Duke University, placing a year ahead in chemistry, but had very little money. To meet his expenses he worked…

John H. Beynon was born in Ystalyfera, Wales, the older of two sons whose parents ended their education at secondary school. Beynon grew up in a coal mining town and attended a local university, the University of Wales…

Klaus Biemann's oral history begins with a discussion of his youth near Vienna, Austria. As pharmacy was the family profession, Biemann chose to study it at the University of Innsbruck. He soon developed an interest in…

Two vacuum distillation apparatuses with various components, including distillation flasks, thermometers, heating baths, vacuum tubes, as well as stands and clamps.

Vacuum distillation is a method of distilling at…

B 2040. Differential tensimeter.
B 2041. Storage rack with circular section for tensimeter.
B 2052. Stirring device, mechanically operated by clockwork.
B 2057. Reading device for thermometer.
B 2060. Complete apparatus…

B 4919. Water sampling apparatus, with bottles and tube for chemical, gas, and bacteriological analysis.
B 4921. For removing river or seawater.
B 4922. Flow-through water sampler suitable for all depths.
B 4923. Winch…

Ernst Leitz Wetzlar electric heating microscope stage warmers.

Microtomes are used for cutting tissues into extremely thin sections, for preparation of samples in microscopy.

B 5255. Sledge microtome for anatomical and bacteriological work.
B 5261. Microtome with crank for all…

Microtomes are used for cutting tissues into extremely thin sections, for preparation of samples in microscopy.

Microscope with achromatic objectives and Huygens eyepieces. Assembled with the "No. 2b" stand, for medium microscopes with lighting unit.

Microscope with achromatic objectives. Assembled with the "No. 1" stand, for large microscopes.

Oil immersion microscopes with various components and of different sizes.

Two microscopes with choices of various components for complete assembly.

B 5095. Sufficient for most bacteriological, histological, botanical, and zoological investigations.
B 5099. For bacteriological work (equipment…

Polarimeters are used to measure the angle of rotation of a beam of light passing through an optically active substance.