The development of the laboratory : essays on the place of experiment in industrial civilization

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The development of the laboratory : essays on the place of experiment in industrial civilization

edited and introduced by Frank A.J.L. James

Macmillan, 1989

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Bibliography: p. [242]-254

Includes index

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内容説明

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.

目次

  • Part I Chemical laboratories: Humphrey Davy - fund raiser, J.Z.Fullmer
  • the lectureship in chemistry and the chemical laboratory, University of Glasgow, 1747-1818, D.V.Fenby
  • amusement chests and portable laboratories, B.Gee. Part 2 The extension of laboratories to physics: techniques from texts - recovering the micro-structure of real experiments, D. Gooding
  • a physics laboratory at Harvard University, L. Aronovitch
  • J.J.Thomson and "Cavendish" physics, I. Falconer
  • the astronomical observatory as practical space - the examples of Bessel and Struve, M.E.W.Williams
  • the geopolitics and architectural design of a metrological laboratory - the laboratories of Finsbury Technical College in the 1880s, W.H.Brock. Part 3 The large physics laboratories: pragmatism in particle physics - scientific and military interests in the postwar United States, A. Pickering
  • Fermilab - founding a $250 million accelerator, C. Westfall
  • the CERN Beam transport programme in the early 60s, J. Krige
  • "Monsters" and colliders in 1961 - the first debate at CERN on future accelarators, D. Pestre.

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