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Anschütz’s manometer

23 April 2013 Classic Kit

A compact and convenient distillation aid

Geiger's tube

25 March 2013 Classic Kit

The ticking counter of individual atomic events

Castner's electrode

1 March 2013 Classic Kit

Bringing the spark of life to the chemical industry

Coolidge’s x-ray tube

24 January 2013 Classic Kit

A light to reveal the atomic order of the world

Wedgwood’s pyrometer

19 December 2012 Classic Kit

Taming the fiery heat of kiln and furnace

Karl Fischer’s titrator

3 December 2012 Classic Kit

Putting the crunch into those moreish goodies

Penning’s vacuum gauge

31 October 2012 Classic Kit

Born not from the spark of an idea but the afterglow

Dufton's spiral column

1 October 2012 Classic Kit

The winding path to chemical virtue

Lüer's syringe

28 August 2012 Classic Kit

An innovation that launched a family empire

Chattaway's spatula

23 July 2012 Classic Kit

Trusty companion of intrepid chemical explorers

Luggin's capillary

1 July 2012 Classic Kit

Do you cringe when a relationship is described as involving ‘chemistry’?

Turing’s machine

31 May 2012 Classic Kit

Alan Turing, perhaps not often remembered as a chemist, provided the starting point for computational chemistry

Scheibel's column

30 April 2012 Classic Kit

Liquid-liquid extraction attracts a little poetic licence

Pirani's gauge

31 March 2012 Classic Kit

A 'lightbulb moment' in measuring vacuum pressure

Classic Kit: Pirani's gauge

28 March 2012 Classic Kit

A 'lightbulb moment' in measuring vacuum pressure

Classic Kit: Zsigmondy's ultramicroscope

23 February 2012 Classic Kit

Conquering vapour density and atomic weight

Classic Kit: Victor Meyer's apparatus

27 January 2012 Classic Kit

Conquering vapour density and atomic weight

Classic Kit: Hickman's still

22 December 2011 Classic Kit

Purifying the most involatile of liquids

Classic Kit: Wheatstone's Bridge

28 November 2011 Classic Kit

Of all the paradigms of science, the idea of equilibrium is one of the most fundamental

Classic Kit: Weissenberg's Camera

26 October 2011 Classic Kit

In so many societies, bread is the stuff of life the cornerstone of existence

Classic Kit: Van de Graaff generator

29 September 2011 Classic Kit

Transport systems can be great unifiers and bringers of development

Classic Kit: McLeod's Vacuum Guage

26 August 2011 Classic Kit

The simmering tensions between science and religion

Classic Kit: Griffin's beaker

28 July 2011 Classic Kit

What's in a name?

Classic Kit: The Evans balance

30 June 2011 Classic Kit

Easy to use and robust, the Evans or JM balance has been on the market in various forms since 1974

Classic Kit: Volta's piles

31 May 2011 Classic Kit

Lightning is one of the great metaphors for the creative process