The Development of the Laboratory

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Frank A. J. L. James

      Pages 1-7

3. Chemical Laboratories

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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   2. Humphry Davy: Fund Raiser

      • June Z. Fullmer

      Pages 11-21

   3. The Lectureship in Chemistry and the Chemical Laboratory, University of Glasgow, 1747–1818

      • David V. Fenby

      Pages 22-36

   4. Amusement Chests and Portable Laboratories: Practical Alternatives to the Regular Laboratory

      • Brian Gee

      Pages 37-59

4. The Extension of Laboratories to Physics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-61

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   2. History in the Laboratory: Can We Tell What Really Went on?

      • David Gooding

      Pages 63-82

   3. The Spirit of Investigation: Physics at Harvard University, 1870–1910

      • Lawrence Aronovitch

      Pages 83-103

   4. J. J. Thomson and ‘Cavendish Physics’

      • Isobel Falconer

      Pages 104-117

   5. Astronomical Observatories as Practical Space: The Case of Pulkowa

      • Mari E. W. Williams

      Pages 118-136

   6. The Geopolitics and Architectural Design of a Metrological Laboratory: The Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt in Imperial Germany

      • David Cahan

      Pages 137-154

   7. Building England’s First Technical College: The Laboratories of Finsbury Technical College, 1878–1926

      • W. H. Brock

      Pages 155-170

5. The Large Physics Laboratories

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-173

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   2. Pragmatism in Particle Physics: Scientific and Military Interests in the Post-war United States

      • Andrew Pickering

      Pages 174-183

   3. Fermilab: Founding the First US ‘Truly National Laboratory’

      • Catherine Westfall

      Pages 184-217

   4. The CERN Beam-transport Programme in the Early 1960s

      • John Krige

      Pages 218-232

   5. ‘Monsters’ and Colliders in 1961 : The First Debate at CERN on Future Accelerators

      • Dominique Pestre

      Pages 233-241

6. Back Matter

   Pages 242-260

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Laboratories are fundamental to the practice of science, yet there is a paucity of serious historical analysis of the subject. This book sets out to reflect the diversity in the variety of laboratories in existence and the multiplicity of their development.

• development
• experiment
• geopolitics
• politics
• science
• state
• university

• Royal Institution, UK

  Frank A. J. L. James

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