The Development of the Laboratory

Part I Chemical laboratories: Humphrey Davy - fund raiser, J.Z.Fullmer; the lectureship in chemistry and the chemical laboratory, University of Glasgow, 1747-1818, D.V.Fenby; amusement chests and portable laboratories, B.Gee. Part 2 The extension of laboratories to physics: techniques from texts - recovering the micro-structure of real experiments, D. Gooding; a physics laboratory at Harvard University, L. Aronovitch; J.J.Thomson and "Cavendish" physics, I. Falconer; the astronomical observatory as practical space - the examples of Bessel and Struve, M.E.W.Williams; the geopolitics and architectural design of a metrological laboratory - the laboratories of Finsbury Technical College in the 1880s, W.H.Brock. Part 3 The large physics laboratories: pragmatism in particle physics - scientific and military interests in the postwar United States, A. Pickering; Fermilab - founding a $250 million accelerator, C. Westfall; the CERN Beam transport programme in the early 60s, J. Krige; "Monsters" and colliders in 1961 - the first debate at CERN on future accelarators, D. Pestre.