University of Oxford. Balliol-Trinity Laboratories, 1879-1941.
Balliol-Trinity Laboratories records, 1880-1941.
Includes 6 laboratory record books, as follows: early record of experiments, 1880-1881; reagents book; volume of apparatus instructions and tests, 1890-1925; 2 account books covering the period 1904-1941; laboratory notebook written by O. L. Hughes, about 1933.
The Balliol-Trinity Laboratories, operated by two neighboring Oxford colleges, began as teaching and research facilities for students of those colleges in both physics and chemistry, but became, especialy after 1904, the centre of physical chemistry in Oxford University. Indeed, it became the centre of a thriving school of physical chemistry of international importance, producing chemists and physicists of the calibre of R. P. Bell, E. J. Bowen, Sir Harold Hartley, Sir Cyril Hinshelwood, Sir Thomas Merton, H. G. J. Moseley, and Sir H. W. Thompson. Successive directors from 1879 were H. B. Dixon, Sir John Conroy, D. H. Nagel, Sir Harold Hartley, and Sir Cyril Hinshelwood.
Chemical tests and reagents.
Chemistry, Physical and theoretical -- Experiments.
Laboratories -- England.
Scientific apparatus and instruments -- Testing.
Account books. aat
Instructions. aat
Laboratory notes. aat aat aat
Records. aat ftamc
Hughes, O. L.
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