Mine is vaguely pointy with a rounded end. It lurks at the back of the ‘Cupboard Without a Name’, which doesn’t credit a cupboard label because it’s full of different stuff. You know, the stuff which might come in useful one day: a kymograph (the sort that took smoked paper that needed to be varnished), a primitive stimulator, something completely unidentifiable with what looks like Bakelite and that piece of strange glassware. Continue reading
Too much glassware?
It's a clue!
It happened three times this week. I kid you not, three separate times. I know television has some strange ideas about science and whinging about how science is represented on the TV isn’t productive – especially when it’s fiction we are discussing – but three times! Continue reading
I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass – well, I don’t actually
I have only invented two things in my life. One was a really very clever piece of design based upon a little-advertised principle of physics and would have been of great use to about a dozen people on the planet. The other could be knocked up in five minutes and was useful to everybody who worked in a laboratory anywhere. Continue reading
Coming clean about glassware
One distinct improvement in ‘lab life’ in recent years has been the development of really efficient, dependable and relatively low-cost glassware cleaners. I am very impressed at the standard of sparkling beakers and measuring cylinders I retrieve from them, wherever I am based. They have become a positive joy – a lifesaver even! Continue reading
Laboratory glass – more to it than what meets the eye!
Any riddle fans out there? Hope so. I’ve always liked riddles ever since reading ‘The Hobbit’ at an exceptionally precocious age, although I have to agree with Gollum: ‘What have I got in my pocket?’ is not a proper riddle. Continue reading
Chemical Glassware And Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters
A measuring cylinder is still a remarkably useful piece of laboratory equipment, as anybody who has opened a glassware cupboard, in need, only to find it empty, will verify. Incidentally who are the people who have the audacity to remove the last measuring cylinder or beaker without doing something about it? Continue reading
Lab Glassware Has Moved On
Once upon a time, in a land not actually that far away, and (to be honest) not that long ago either, there were science departments that employed people especially to help the scientists. Continue reading