History
Categories
- Davy, Humphrey (5)
- Kamen, Martin (3)
- Lavoisier, Antoine (3)
- Priestley, Joseph (6)
Links
Rediscovery of the Elements
http://www.jennymarshall.com/rediscovery1.htm
Photo tour of the places in Europe and North America where each of the chemical elements was first discovered.
Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image
http://www.library.upenn.edu/etext/smith/
The Edgar Fahs Smith Image Collection contains over 3,000 images of scientists, laboratories, and scientific apparatus. A selection of these prints, engravings, and photographs is reproduced on this site. Photographs of any of these images may be ordered from an on-line order form.
Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (SHAC)
http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/HST/SHAC/index.html
Information on how to join the Society, its activities, journal and conferences.
The Chemical Heritage Foundation
A non-profit foundation dedicated to preserving and making known the history of the chemical sciences.
The History and Chemistry of Murexide Dye
http://www.chriscooksey.demon.co.uk/murexide/
Text derived from Scheele, Prout, Liebig and Wohler.
The History of Chemical Engineering
http://www.cems.umn.edu/~aiche_ug/history/h_intro.html
Contains an introduction to chemical engineering and a brief history of the profession.
This Week in Chemical History
http://chemistry.org/portal/Chemistry?PID=history.html
Annotated calendar noting both the people and the events related to various dates.