Crellin Chemical Laboratory

Caltech had high standards of safety and protection of research workers and students. The new Crellin Chemical Laboratory, finished in 1939, had at least one large fiime hood in every laboratory. There were small downdraft fume hoods along the center of each work bench in the freshman chemistry laboratory, so that every two students had their own mini-hood. Before carrying out war-gas research. Professor Roscoe Dickinson asked for doubling the pumping capacity for two fume hoods in 65 Crellin and raising the... 

Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Gates and Crellin Laboratories of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91109. 

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