Chemistry -- History
Found in 65 Collections and/or Records:
Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection Booklet
One booklet, titled The Story of the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection in the History of Chemistry by Eva V. Armstrong, published by the University of Pennsylvania in 1937.
Frank Henry Verhoek Papers
The focus of this collection is Chemical Education. Verhoek's notebooks from Harvard and the University of Wisconsin give a fairly comprehensive overview of how Chemistry was taught in the early years of the 20th Century.
George B. Kauffman history of chemistry lecture notes
Handwritten letter by Marsilo Landriani to a naturalist
This 4 page letter written on May 7, 1787 deals with several topics including the work of Lavoisier, Guyton de Morveau and others in the evolving nomenclature, and the work of Richard Kirwan, a Scottish meteorologist.
Herbert T. Pratt Papers
Research files, printed materials, manuals, sample cards and sample books, notebooks, and signed items of Herbert T. Pratt, an American chemical engineer, chemistry historian, and collector of rare chemistry books, chemistry memorabilia, and textiles memorabilia.
James J. Bohning Papers
Research files, interview notes, oral history notes and materials, correspondence, newspaper clippings, conferences and presentations materials, and publications belonging to James J. Bohning.
Joseph Priestley 250th Anniversary Collection
A collection of correspondence, booklets, and presentation materials commemorating the 250th anniversary of the birth of English chemist Joseph Priestley.
Joseph Priestley materials
For a more detailed inventory, please view this record in our library catalog: https://othmerlib.sciencehistory.org/record=b1064043~S6
Much of this material is genealogically-oriented, including correspondence with descendents of Priestley, genealogical charts and items of ephemera. The bulk of it centers around Priestley's time in England.
Laird Gordon Lindsay Ward miscellaneous materials
Collection includes: Reprint of Lord Rutherford's Recorded Lecture at Gottingen, Ronald K. Smeltzer, 1997, 2 typed pages titled Two Earlier Lives, Photocopy of The Transmutation of the Atom by Lord Rutherford of Nelson 1933, 5 photopcoy pages of letters exchanged between Archibald MacDiarmid and Lord and Lady Rutherford, 1992 Program and Abstracts from Inorganic Anoranies 92, Booklet titled The Chemical Society Invites You, n.d., By-Laws of the Chemical Society booklet, 1954.