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Built in 1929, Orton Memorial Laboratory was originally used as the headquarters for the Standard Pyrometric Cone Company. The company was established by the son of the founding president of the Ohio State University. The laboratory was designed by Howard Dwight Smith, the same architect who designed the Thompson Library and the Ohio Stadium. A ...
Uraniborg was an astronomical observatory and alchemy laboratory established and operated by the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe. It was the first custom-built observatory in modern Europe, and the last to be built without a telescope as its primary instrument.
The Incompleat Chymist: Being an Essay on the Eighteenth-Century Chemist in His Laboratory, with a Dictionary of Obsolete Chemical Terms of the Period (Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, Number 33). Smithsonian Institution Press. Giunta, Carmen. Glossary of Archaic Chemical Terms: Introduction and Part I (A-B).
For many years, beginning in 1909, the offices of Chemical Abstracts were housed in various places on the Columbus, Ohio campus of Ohio State University, including McPherson Laboratory and Watts Hall. [14] In 1965, CAS moved to a new 50-acre (200,000 m 2) site on the west bank of the Olentangy River, just north of The Ohio State campus.
Originally focusing on contract research and development work in the areas of metals and material science, Battelle is now an international science and technology enterprise that explores emerging areas of science, develops and commercializes technology, and manages laboratories for customers.
Watts Hall was a building on the Ohio State University campus, in Columbus, Ohio, United States. [2] The building was named after Arthur S. Watts, [1] a former head of the Department of Ceramic Engineering, and former president of the American Ceramic Society. [3]
The building contained six wings and in 1959 a seventh laboratory wing was added. In 1960, Los Alamos built Wing 9, a 64,000-square-foot (5,900 m 2) addition containing hot cells with remote handling capabilities. In total, the CMR building now contains roughly 550,000 square feet (51,000 m 2) of laboratories and related facilities.
Brahe published his findings at Copenhagen in 1573 and these became the basis for his fame as an astronomer. He later moved onto the island of Hven in the Sound in 1576 where he built the astronomical observatory and alchemy laboratory of Uraniborg. Herrevad passed to several other nobles until 1658 when Skåne was united with Sweden.