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Chest Containing 28 Chemical Charts Used for Teaching at the Daubeny Laboratory, Oxford

Inventory Number 11760


Subject
Chemistry
Item type
Object
Provenance
Presented by Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1952. From the Daubeny Laboratoy. [ex Daubeny Lab, mostly post Daubeny.
Inventory No
11760
Accession Number
1952-59

Description

A Chest containing a made to measure lift out tray and chemical charts. Currently only able to access the top layer which contains 16 charts. Chest has detail joints, a hinged lid and is painted with white paint, ex Daubeny Lab, mostly post Daubeny.

Charts include:

.1 - 'Plants Make Sugar from Carbonic Acid'

.2 - 'Art Produces Carbonic Acid from Sugar'

.3 - 'Chem Type. Neptheline, No2'

.4 - 'Alkeloids'

.5 - 'Alkeloids'

.6 - 'Alkeloids'

.7 - 'Chem Type. Neptheline, No 1.'

.8 - 'Compounds of Benzoyle'

.9 - Homologous Bodies'

.10 - 'Spectraltafel nach der originalzeichnung von G. Kirchhoff und R. Bunsen'

.11 - 'German Method of Making Vinegar'

.12 - '2. Amides'

.13 - 'Substances Containing Carbon'. Tabular view of substances containing carbon showing the steps by which wood exposed to moisture is gradually converted into coal. Black cloth. White paint writing. 2 cloth hooks and cloth hanging strip under cloth ties. Bar at top and bottom.

.14 - 'Theory of the Acids of Phosphorus'. Black cloth. Black cloth tie. Black cloth hanging loop.

.15 - 'Compounds of Nitrogen'. Black cloth. Black cloth tie in 2 pieces. Black cloth hanging loop.

.16 - 'Compounds of Phosphorus'. Black cloth. Hanging loop with knot.

.17 - 'Compounds of Ammonia'. Black cloth patch sewn on at top under lettering. Black cloth tie long with another piece knotted into it.

.18 - 'Table of Electrics and Conductors'. Black cloth string tie. Black cloth hanging loop. Top and bottom bar.

.19 - 'Steam Engine'. Black cloth. Black cloth tie. Black cloth hanging loop.

.20 - 'Table of the Fatty Acids'. Paper. 3 cloths hooks. 2 with string threaded through reinforcing paper stuck on side.

.21 - 'GMELINS / NOMENCLATURE'. 2 cloth hooks sewn on.

.22 - 'Formation of Murietic Acid'. 2 string ties tied through canvas.

.23 - 'Vegetable Alkelis'

.24 - 'Homologous Bodies'. 3 cloth hooks stuck down with paper, centre one has cloth tie through it.

.25 - 'Chemical Types'. 3 cloth ties stuck onto canvas, one with cloth tape threaded through it.

.26 - 'Metals Precipitate'

.27 - 'Rotation of Crops' / 'Reg[?] nos 6-29'. 4 cloth hooks.

.28 - 'Nos 1-27'. 4 cloth hooks.

.29 - Ink and water technical.

.30 - Long cream coloured wooden chest, used for containing the charts.

.31 - Smaller cream coloured wooden chest.