CHF Instrumentation Museum - material relating to the early years of a project to establish an instrumentation museum in Philadelphia, 1996-2002

“In 1981, the American Chemical Society asked Dr. Brame and Dr. John Ferraro to begin a collection of historical instruments used in chemistry. The Chemical Heritage Foundation agreed to house the collection. At first the task was difficult, with few companies contributing, but within a few years the collection became too large for the space allocated to it. In 2002, Dr. Thomas Porro acquired for CHF the contents of a similar collection which was closing in Europe. That collection, the Perkin-Elmer Bodenseewerk Museum Collection, was a critical addition, making the CHF collection the finest in the world.” Note by Grace Adolphsen Brame.