It has been decided not provide catalog numbers for the all ordinary glassware
recommended the furnishings plan because this will give the installer the job of
locating specific items the large museum collection.
Some bare space top the experimental tables desirable. The chemicals were contained glass-stoppered bottles various sizes.General Guidelines for Chemistry Laboratory Furnishings
The photographs from the early twentieth century all show that much the space
on top the tables was taken with bottles chemicals-this not the case at
present. Instead, objects that are
readily located table tops and the exact items illustrated photographs in
chemical suppliers’ catalogues have been identified; the remaining items should be
located the collection and compared with the photographs before placement.
The shelves underneath the laboratory tables should cleared all artifacts
except bottles tins chemicals. Large bottles (of liters) were usually
kept there. Edison’s table, however, should
be cluttered with chemicals, shown figure 35. This keeps vulnerable equipment away from visitors and hopefully outside
the reach small children who might tempted touch taste. Although know which
chemicals were each table, there way tell the size bottle which they
were stored.
On the other hand, the racks the end the tables should full bottles of
chemicals, photographs show these racks packed with bottles.
Every effort should made give this space "lived in" look: the installation
should include cigars the tables, crumpled paper the floor, hats and coats
hung the sides the wall closets, and on. Therefore
random bottles chemicals and labelled samples should used the racks.
Some small glass containers with metal screw caps were used hold samples of
metals and ores. Smaller bottles had cork stoppers. The laboratory equipment and
bottles chemicals should placed the side the tables nearest the walls, as
if laboratory staff were working along the inside aisles, facing the center the
room. the case substances such shellac (which were purchased in
bulk from suppliers and used experiments) the determination the packaging
is taken from the packages found the lean-to next the chemistry building.
Note that all chemicals exhibit will reproductions. difficult to
determine which chemicals were placed the rack and what kind bottles were
used there. appears that there was method ordering system use. This table should short on
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. effort should made fill the lower shelves-some open space
is consistent with the laboratory are trying portray. Room should be
left show the experimental notebooks clearly. To
compound these difficulties, development and implementation 1973
furnishings plan probably caused chemicals removed replaced
