Stories
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The chymist’s trade card
An 18th-century trade card reveals far more than its owner may have intended.
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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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Would you like to buy a unicorn?
The story behind why somebody tried to sell Henry Wellcome a unicorn head in 1928.
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The art of scientific glassblowing
Exciting things happen when art, craft, engineering and science collide. Glassblower Gayle Price is proof of that.
Catalogue
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A system of theoretical and practical chemistry / By Fredrick Accum.
Accum, Friedrich Christian, 1769-1838.Date: 1803- Archives and manuscripts
Cahen - Cavallotti
Date: 1945-1982Reference: PP/MLV/C/3/1Part of: Vogt, Dr Marthe Louise (1903-2003)- Archives and manuscripts
Millar - Munson
Date: c.1907-1981Reference: PP/MLV/C/13/14Part of: Vogt, Dr Marthe Louise (1903-2003)- Books
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Outline of the lectures and demonstrations of William James Macneven, M. D : as professor of chemistry and materia medica.
MacNeven, William James, 1763-1841.Date: 1820- Archives and manuscripts
Wolf, Charles George Lewis (1872 - 1954)
Wolf, Charles George Lewis, 1872-1954, biochemistDate: 1904Reference: MS.5089