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IF it be true, as has often been emphasized, that scientific progress is associated with the development of new laboratory methods and technique, then the story of laboratory apparatus becomes a part of the history of chemical education. This is a special branch of historical chemistry so it requires close contact with the instrument business for its investigation; the author, long associated with Eimer and Amend of New York, has proved fully capable of discharging his self-assumed task. Though limited to American chemistry, Mr. Child has necessarily gone back to European origins so as to place his picture in its proper setting. The resulting story, briefly told in an attractively produced book, makes the most pleasant reading: we would recommend its perusal to our colleagues.
The Tools of the Chemist
Their Ancestry and American Evolution. By Ernest Child. Pp. 220. (New York: Reinhold Publishing Corporation; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1940.) 21s. net.
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ARMSTRONG, E. The Tools of the Chemist. Nature 146, 604 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146604a0
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