The Development of the Laboratory
Essays on the Place of Experiments in Industrial Civilization
Published on 18. June 1989
XVI, 260 pages
978-1-349-10606-6 (ISBN)
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Laboratories are fundamental to the practice of science, yet there is a paucity of serious historical analysis of the subject. This book sets out to reflect the diversity in the variety of laboratories in existence and the multiplicity of their development.
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Frank A. J. L. James
The Development of the Laboratory
Essays on the Place of Experiments in Industrial Civilization
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07/1989
Palgrave Macmillan
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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.
