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Science Museum, London, United Kingdom Wlieatstone, Charles (1802-1875)... 

J. G. Fyffe and R. G. W. Anderson, Joseph Black A Bibliography, Science Museum, London, 1992. 

A. Q. Morton, Science in the 18th Century The King George III Collection, Science Museum, London, 1993. 

Fig. 3.2 Edward Frankland (1825-1899) at the time when we was the Director and Professor of Chemistry at the Royal College of Chemistry in London (photo reproduced with permission of the Science Museum, London)...

The validity of the historical conclusions drawn rests on the reliability of the SSMS analyses and, although our results are internally consistent (to the extent allowed by the variation in composition of the platinum samples subjected to purification), the results become more compelling when compared with analyses of Wollaston s own platinum. Fortunately a number of authentic Wollaston artifacts are held by the Science Museum, London, and small samples of fine platinum wires produced by him were made available for analysis. Analyses by SSMS of four platinum wires (21) gave average values for the principal metallic constituents as follows platinum (99.32%), iridium (0.22%), rhodium (0.03%), iron (0.35%), copper (0.03%), and lead (0.01%). The composition of Wollaston s platinum thus correlates well with the values obtained by repetition of his purification procedures on similar samples of alluvial Colombian plati-... 

A bottle containing the original mauveine made by Perkin is now displayed in the Science Museum, London, UK, which is located next to the Imperial College of Science and Technology. 

THE IMAGE OF CHEMISTRY PRESENTED BY THE SCIENCE MUSEUM, LONDON IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY ... 

Follett, D. 1978, The Rise of the Science Museum under Henry Lyons, Science Museum, London. 

Morris, P.J.T. 2006, The Image of Chemistry Presented by the Science Museum, London in the Twentieth Century An International Perspective , Hyle, 12 (2), 215-239. 

For the early history of Beetle see lecture given by Kenneth M. Chance, managing director of British Cyanides, at the Science Museum, London, on the occasion of the 1933 plastics exhibition. The Plastics Exhibition, 1933. Twelfth lecture. Plastics Urea-formaldehyde types and their uses, British Plastics and Moulded Products Trader, 5 (1934), 313-318. This journal was founded in 1929, as the official organ of the British Plastic Moulding Trade Association (from 1933, the British Plastics Federation). 

Elisabeth Gamsey, University of Cambridge, Ernst Homburg, University of Maastricht, and Peter J.T. Morris, Science Museum, London, are thanked for assistance with information used in this paper, and also for critical comments. 

Peter J.T. Morris is Senior Curator, Experimental Chemistry, Science Museum, London. His publications include the American Synthetic Rubber Research Program (Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989), and, with Colin A. Russell, Archives of the British Chemical Industry, 1750-1914 (Faringdon, Oxfordshire British Society for the History of Science, 1988). Research appointments have included Royal Society-British Academy Research Fellow in the History of Science and Edelstein International Fellow in the History of Chemistry. 

Mossman, S. (1993). Plastics in the Science Museum, London A curator s view. In Postprints of Saving the Twentieth Century The Conservation of Modem Materials Ottawa, 15—20 September 1991 (D. Grattan, ed.) pp. 25—35, Canadian Conservation Institute. 

Hammond, Carter 2002, pp. 224f the Science Museum, London, has a collection of posters of Porton s open days. I am grateful to Robert Bud for this information. See also IWM, Film and Video Archive, The Microbiological Research Establishment at Porton. 

Figure Jasper Clark (2nd from right) presents an historic flowmeter to the Science Museum, London. (Reproduced from Ref. 31. Copyright 1980, American Chemical Society.)...

Stock, J. T. Vaughan, D. The Development of Instruments to Measure Electric Current Science Museum London, 1983. Moseley, F. L. Symposium on the History of Chemical Instrumentation A.C.S. Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., 1979, Paper No. 11. 

Nier, K.A. (1999) Instruments of Science An Historical Encyclopedia (eds R. Bud and D.J. Warner), The Science Museum, London The National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. 

Gordon and Breach, Science Publishers Ltd. (Plates 2.2, 2.3, 2.7) Science Museum, London (Fig. 1.4)... 

Cyanotype the history, science and art of photographic printing in Prussian blue, M. Ware, The Board of Trusteess of the Science Museum, London (1999). 

Van der Straeten, E. (1993). Adhesive-bonded joints in wooden aircraft, 1920-1945 techniques and materials. Unpublished paper presented at a seminar on The History of Composites, at the Aeronautical Department of the Science Museum, London. 

Figure 2.1. Lead chamber process for the manufacture of sulfuric acid. Reprinted with permission of the Science Museum, London.

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