All Classic kit articles – Page 9

  • An image of blue liquid being poured into a beaker containing clear liquid.
    Opinion

    Griffin's beaker

    2011-07-28T15:08:00Z

    What's in a name?

  • Evans balance schematic
    Opinion

    The Evans balance

    2011-06-30T09:50:00Z

    Easy to use and robust, the Evans or JM balance has been on the market in various forms since 1974

  • CLASSIC-KIT-300
    Opinion

    Volta's piles

    2011-05-31T11:40:00Z

    Lightning is one of the great metaphors for the creative process

  • Opinion

    Hershberg's stirrer

    2011-04-28T09:09:00Z

    A deceptively simple stirrer

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • CLASSIC-KIT-225
    Opinion

    Töpler pump

    2011-01-05T11:03:00Z

    Too many arm curls

  • CLASSIC-KIT-200
    Opinion

    Gouy's tube

    2010-11-29T12:55:00Z

    How many physical scientists can really dance?

  • 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

  • CLASSIC-KIT-250
    Opinion

    Saussure's cyanometer

    2010-09-28T10:41:00Z

    In 1959, jazz trumpeter Miles Davis assembled his ideal sextet

  • CLASSIC-KIT-gooch-200
    Opinion

    Gooch's crucible

    2010-08-27T11:40:00Z

    Many years ago, a friend of mine teased me about how I, as a chemist, would probably die young of some dread occupational disease

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    Opinion

    Haldane's blood gas analyser

    2010-07-30T09:30:00Z

    Félix Houphouët-Boigny, who steered Ivory Coast to independence in 1959, was known as the Sage of Africa

  • CLASSIC-KIT-morton-200
    Opinion

    Morton flask

    2010-06-25T11:34:00Z

    Baldassarre Castiglione wrote that the perfect gentleman should 'affect in all things sprezzatura' - artful effortlessness

  • CLASSIC-KIT-300
    Opinion

    Dean-Stark apparatus

    2010-05-27T09:53:00Z

    If there is any single substance that unites pretty much all chemists, it has to be water

  • Opinion

    Allihn condenser

    2010-04-28T09:29:00Z

    One seldom sees grown-ups in public blowing bubbles

  • CLASSIC-KIT-200
    Opinion

    Pasteur pipette

    2010-03-31T08:05:00Z

    Courage is not a trait that one always associates with scientists

  • CLASSIC-KIT-200
    Opinion

    Vernier scale

    2010-02-26T10:39:00Z

    Sooner or later, it is the fate of every scholar to be accused of pedantry

  • CLASSIC-KIT-200
    Opinion

    Petri dish

    2010-01-28T13:34:00Z

    When I was about 16, I came across a peculiar novel in my father's study

  • CLASSIC-KIT-210
    Opinion

    Hofmann's voltammeter

    2010-01-06T11:06:00Z

    As a child, I remember wondering how far one could count