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.

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Royal Institution, UK

Frank A. J. L. James

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Book Title: The Development of the Laboratory
Book Subtitle: Essays on the Place of Experiments in Industrial Civilization
Editors: Frank A. J. L. James
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10606-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The editor and the contributors 1989
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-10606-6Published: 18 June 1989
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 260
Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Science, History of Chemistry, History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics

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Introduction

Chemical Laboratories

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The Extension of Laboratories to Physics

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The Large Physics Laboratories

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