It's exposure to all those unusual compounds. On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 2:43 PM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote: > I remember having one of those chemistry sets when I was a child. Can't > remember how I came to have it, because I know my parents wouldn't buy it > for me. > > My first college room-mate was a chemistry major. He was weird too. 8-D > > From: Steven Desjardins > > >> 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 > > > -- > 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.
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