A selection of laboratory instruments

This on-line exhibition highlights the history of the University’s Department of Chemistry Old Chemistry building, and suggests the extent to which science and technology have changed in the years since the Old Chemistry building at Arts Centre site was home to the department.

This is made particularly apparent by laboratory instruments, and all of the pieces displayed here were first used in the Old Chemistry building. These pieces of equipment once reflected up-to-date technologies, but now symbolise how scientific practices themselves have histories, and the relationships between shifts in scientific understanding and the material objects used in experiments and analyses.