Stories
- Article
The art of scientific glassblowing
Exciting things happen when art, craft, engineering and science collide. Glassblower Gayle Price is proof of that.
- Article
What is air, and how do we know?
Watching bubbles in fermenting beer led 18th-century scientist Joseph Priestley to invent sparkling water – and to discover that different gases make up the air we breathe.
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Coleridge’s hypochondria
An intense focus on his own bodily sensations led poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge to self-medicate with narcotics. But this fascination also put Coleridge ahead of the medical sensibilities of his day.
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The chymist’s trade card
An 18th-century trade card reveals far more than its owner may have intended.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
[Chemists]
Date: 1923-1932Reference: WA/BSR/LA/Sta/3Part of: Wellcome Bureau of Scientific Research- Archives and manuscripts
Chemists posts
Date: 1939Reference: WA/BSR/LA/Sta/9Part of: Wellcome Bureau of Scientific Research- Books
Chemists / general editor, David Abbott.
Date: 1983- Archives and manuscripts
‘Chemists Christmas Party'
Date: c.1940sReference: PP/AWD/P/5/15Part of: Daley, Sir (William) Allen (1887-1969)- Books
Chemists' dictionary of synonyms : incorporating Rouse's synonyms for the use of chemists, their assistants and apprentices.
Date: 1940