Well recorded, Steven. My wife was a bench chemist at American Cyanamid and Ortho before becoming a Chemistry teacher and public school science supervisor. I have been to science museums all over the US and Europe. Somehow, I missed this one, even though it is about an hour from our home!
I studied physics in college, before turning to the dark side. It is important to distinguish among the sciences: If it is heavy ............................ It's geology If it is green ............................. It's biology If it moves ................................It's zoology If it stinks ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,It's chemistry If it doesn't work .......................It's physics Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Steven Desjardins <[email protected]> wrote: > While at the American Chemical Society meeting, I made a visit > (pilgrimage) to the Chemistry Heritage Museum. (Do try to contain > yourselves.) I waited in line to get in, a rare experience I'm sure. > I asked the very frazzled woman at the desk how her day was going. > She asked me to consider what the normal foot traffic would be for the > Chemical Heritage Museum and how that might change when an > international group of 15,000 chemists are having a meeting 6 blocks > away. She also did point out that the "voluntary contributions" that > week amounted to about 25% of their yearly budget. Here's a > collection of images since I assume limited interest and don't want to > drag you through them Peso by Peso. > > Old Faithful, the earliest commercial chemical reactor in the US to > produce Bakelite, the first commercially available plastic/ > http://drd1135.smugmug.com/Photography/pdml/i-LwVh7ZJ/0/X2/bakelite-X2.jpg > > A very earl;y commercial battery: > http://drd1135.smugmug.com/Photography/pdml/i-vkJscCg/0/X2/battery-X2.jpg > > Chemistry sets. I owned several of these. > http://drd1135.smugmug.com/Photography/pdml/i-mm2LMq5/0/X2/chemistry-sets-X2.jpg > > The handwritten version of one of the earliest papers on the chemical > use of nuclear magnetic resonance, and the Noble prize that resulted. > I could not get a shot without those reflections ;-( > http://drd1135.smugmug.com/Photography/pdml/i-96548wn/0/X2/NMR-paper-X2.jpg > > Some very old alchemical books: > http://drd1135.smugmug.com/Photography/pdml/i-7h29L5k/0/X2/alchemy-books-X2.jpg > > Finally, the title page of the famous book "The Skeptical Chymist" by > Boyle. ON of the first real books on modern Chemisty: > http://drd1135.smugmug.com/Photography/pdml/i-XHMSwRr/0/X2/Skeptical-Chymist-X2.jpg > > -- > Steve Desjardins > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
