Instrument Revolution

The instrumental revolution has also lead to a data affluence previously unrealized. Multielement techniques capable of simul-... 

P. J. T. Morris, ed., From Classical to Modem Chemistry The Instrumental Revolution, Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, 2002. 

Element . [4] The use radiochemists made of physical instrumentation makes them into transition figures between traditional analytical chemistry, based on the treatment with known compounds and the observation of reactions, and today s intensely instrumentalized analytical chemistry, which allow one to discriminate chemicals in terms of their physical properties , as Davis Baird has put it. Baird further observes that, prior to 1920, physical identification always followed on chemical separation and manufacture whereas from 1950, as instrumentation grew in importance, elements in substances could be identified and controlled without separating them. His claim that chemistry thereby underwent a scientific instrumentation revolution is not wholly substantiated by the papers that follow. Quite aside from the nineteenth century precedents referred to above, the techniques of the radioactive scientists clearly put them in an intermediate position between both traditions. [5]... 

D. Baird, Analytical Chemistry and the Big Scientific Instrumentation Revolution, Annals of Science 50 (1993) 267-290. 

See, for instance, Davis Baird, "Analytical Chemistry and the Big Scientific Instrumentation Revolution," Annals of Science, 50, 267-290 (1993), Davis Baird and Thomas Faust, "Scientific Instruments, Scientific Progress and the Cyclotron," British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 41, 147-175(1990). 

I have argued that developments in analytical chemistry during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s—the instrumentation revolution— articulated and promoted an ideal for a kind... 

Schummer J (2002) The impact of instrumentation on chemical species identity from chemical substances to molecular species, hr Morris P (ed) From classical to modem chemistry the instrumental revolution. Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, pp 188-211 Schummer J (2004) Why do cherrrists perform experiments In Sobczynska D, Zeidler P, Zielmracka-Lis E (eds) Cherrristry in the philosophical melting pot. Lang, Frankfurt, pp 395-410... 

Morris PJT (ed.) (2002) From Classical to Modern Chemistry, The Instrumental Revolution. London RSC. 

Morris, P. J. T, ed. 2002. From classical to modern chemistry. The instrumental revolution. Cambridge, UK Royal Society of Chemistry. 

There is a steady trend in all parts of chemistry, as well as in other branches of science and technology, to use more and more variables to characterize molecules, reactions, processes, samples, and other systems. The reasons for this are obvious. First, we strongly feel that we know and understand more about our systems when we have measured many properties (variables) rather than few. Secondly, electronics, computers, and the instrumental revolution in spectrometers, chromatographs, imaging equipment, etc., provide the opportunity to obtain a large amount of information-rich data for any investigated object, item, sample, molecule, individual, reaction, process, or whatever. 

Baird, Davis (1993) Analytical Ghemistry and the Big Scientific Instrumentation Revolution Annals of Science, 50 267—290. 

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