All History articles – Page 42

  • Opinion

    Flashback

    2011-05-31T13:07:30Z

    20 years ago in Chemistry in Britain

  • CLASSIC-KIT-300
    Opinion

    Volta's piles

    2011-05-31T11:40:00Z

    Lightning is one of the great metaphors for the creative process

  • Opinion

    Flashback

    2011-04-28T10:03:08Z

    20 years ago in Chemistry in Britain

  • Opinion

    Hershberg's stirrer

    2011-04-28T09:09:00Z

    A deceptively simple stirrer

  • Mould on jam
    Podcast

    Penicillin

    2011-04-13T00:00:00Z

    A world-changing antibacterial compound born from the horrors of war

  • FEATURE-Boyle-300
    Feature

    Doubts and paradoxes

    2011-03-30T10:28:00Z

    Robert Boyle's The sceptical chymist still holds lessons for the modern chemist - 350 years after its publication, as Mike Sutton discovers

  • Opinion

    Flashback

    2011-03-30T10:23:22Z

    25 years ago in Chemistry in Britain

  • CLASSIC-KIT-150
    Opinion

    Pardy apparatus

    2011-03-29T15:02:00Z

    Martin Luther Kings great 1963 speech calling for racial equality and an end to discrimination

  • Opinion

    Flashback

    2011-02-24T12:01:34Z

    45 years ago in Chemistry in Britain

  • CLASSIC-KIT-400
    Opinion

    Warburg's manometer

    2011-02-24T10:45:00Z

    It is probably fair to say that for all its crucial importance to the smooth running of society, accountancy seldom generates great excitement or wide acclaim

  • Opinion

    Flashback

    2011-01-31T11:43:45Z

    20 years ago in Chemistry in Britain

  • CLASSIC-KIT-225
    Opinion

    Craig's rotary evaporator

    2011-01-31T09:18:00Z

    Years ago, a non-chemist friend of mine visiting my lab asked me what a rotavap was for

  • Opinion

    Flashback

    2011-01-05T11:50:12Z

    25 years ago in Chemistry in Britain

  • CLASSIC-KIT-225
    Opinion

    Töpler pump

    2011-01-05T11:03:00Z

    Too many arm curls

  • Opinion

    Flashback

    2010-11-30T08:37:59Z

    20 years ago in Chemistry in Britain

  • CLASSIC-KIT-200
    Opinion

    Gouy's tube

    2010-11-29T12:55:00Z

    How many physical scientists can really dance?

  • Opinion

    Flashback

    2010-10-28T13:07:47Z

    35 years ago in Chemistry in Britain

  • Opinion

    Bridgman's seal

    2010-10-28T10:14:00Z

    The most reductive of literary critics are wont to say that there are only seven kinds of stories

  • Opinion

    Flashback

    2010-09-28T12:07:26Z

    40 years ago in Chemistry in Britain

  • CLASSIC-KIT-250
    Opinion

    Saussure's cyanometer

    2010-09-28T10:41:00Z

    In 1959, jazz trumpeter Miles Davis assembled his ideal sextet