All Classic kit articles – Page 5

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Czochralski’s pulley

2018-03-08T10:00:00Z

The inkwell accident that led to solid-state transistors

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Cremer’s electrode

2018-02-01T10:00:00Z

The kit that brought pH measurement into reality

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Melloni’s thermomultiplier

2018-01-09T09:00:00Z

How measuring radiant heat gave birth to climate science 

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Witt’s Plate

2017-11-30T10:00:00Z

The chemist caught in the 19th century battle for colour

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Winkler’s Bed

2017-10-31T09:00:00Z

The accidental discovery that led to fluidisation

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Bodenstein’s gauge

2017-10-03T09:00:00Z

The apparatus that started a chain reaction of chemical discovery

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Fabry and Perot's interferometer

2017-08-31T09:00:00Z

The device that changed how we look at light – and our universe

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Ubbelohde's viscometer

2017-08-01T09:24:00Z

Measuring viscosity is a sticky subject

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Fenske’s helices

2017-06-29T08:04:00Z

The story behind fractionating column techniques still used today

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Bourdon’s pressure gauge

2017-05-25T08:55:00Z

The French inventor who knew when to let off steam

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Houskeeper's seal

2017-04-29T08:07:00Z

How an engineer discovered how to seal metal to glass

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Von Kleist's jar

2017-03-28T09:30:00Z

The shocking start to the electrical age

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Marsh's mirror

2017-02-28T09:30:00Z

How a poisoner’s acquittal led to the iconic test of forensic science

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Pimentel’s matrix

2017-01-30T16:09:00Z

The apparatus that allowed us to isolate and study the impossible

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Woulfe’s bottle

2016-12-23T10:00:00Z

How an eccentric, messy occultist improved lab safety

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Winkler’s stopcock

2016-11-29T11:39:00Z

How the father of germanium turned the tap on glass stopcocks

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Palmes' tube

2016-11-01T09:59:00Z

The simple chemical trap that showed us something was in the air

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Merrifield’s resin

2016-09-27T10:19:00Z

The story of solid phase peptide synthesis shows the wisdom of embracing new ideas

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Torricelli's barometer

2016-09-05T09:15:00Z

The pressure was on for scientists to explain what Galileo could not

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Moseley’s spectrometer

2016-08-09T14:32:00Z

Henry Moseley’s discovery changed the face of the periodic table before his untimely death