Laboratory notebook

MS; Various hands

Notebook, 4½" x 7", labelled "Notes on photographic development", with black cover. Includes:

Inside front cover: printed sheet giving charges for printing in silver, bromide and platinotype; Photographic Studio, Swanley. loose page of calculations.

p.1 missing

p.3 5 Aug.: comparison evaporation of air in Hg exhausted vessels and in vessels placed one inside the other with phosphoric anhydride between

p.4 capacity of capillary tubes

p.5 blank

pp.6-11 analysis of samples from Halifax sewage works, 1897

pp.12-13 liquefaction of Bath gas

p.14 calculations

p.15 calculations; refractive indices

pp.16-17 Nov. 1897: refractive indices obtained in liquid air

pp.18-19 Nov. 1897: notes on work with Rontgen rays

pp.20-21 photographs on film by Rontgen rays, cooled and not cooled

p.22 blank

pp.23-4 argon from Bath gas, 6 Dec. 1897; lines observed with Davy Faraday single + spectroscope

p.24 cyanogen tubes

p.25 liquid argon; nitrogen from F line

pp.26-7 helium tubes - cyanogen and nitrogen bands

pp.28-9 photographs by Rontgen rays in liquid air, Dec. 1897

pp.29-35 notes on plates

pp.36-7 Dec. 1897: notes on plates using new oxalate of iron developer.

p.37 7 July 1898: note that 50 cu.ft of Government hydrogen from Royal Ballooning Dept. used for liquid hydrogen trial

p.38 6 Aug. 1900: liquid hydrogen

p.39 7 Aug. 1900: purification of Bath helium; analysis of Paris air

pp.40-44 rough notes on fractionation experiments

pp.45-48 fractionation of Bath gas residues

pp.48-52 liquid air, Dec. 1900

pp.53-4 notes on tubes sent to Dr Liveing, 14 Dec. 1900.

p.55 liquid air

pp.56-8 notes on tubes sent to Liveing, Dec. 1900 and March 1901 with copy of accompanying note to Liveing and of request from Liveing, 13 March, for more tubes. note on helium thermometer.

p.58 note on helium thermometer.

p.59-65 fractionation experiments, including hydrocarbons, crypton and xenon.

pp.66-68 helium, Oct. 1901

pp.68 Oct. 1901: solubility of marsh gas in liquid air and oxygen

p.69-70 fractionation experiments

71-79 Nov-Dec. 1901: fractionation experiments, chiefly marsh gas.

p.80 Dec. 1901: experiments on formation of Ni(CO)4 under pressure

p.81-2 experiments to show velocity of the reaction and to show quantity of nickel carbonyl formed if nickel kept at 100°C.

p.82 examination of sample of calcined Bessemer Matte from Mond Nickel Co.

p.83 8 Feb. 1902: NiCO4 experiments

p.84-5 non condensible gas

p.85 June 1902: Gay Lussac experiment

pp.86-8 June-July 1902: liquefaction of hydrogen

p.89 28 July 1902: helium pump

pp.90-91 rare gases

p.92 14 Oct. 1902: new inverted vacuum

pp.93-5 fractionation of Bath gas

pp.96-8 helium

p.98 18 Nov. 1902: refractionation of residue from liquid air from Jenner Institute

p.99 bath gas

p.100 13 June 1901: hydrogen thermometer

p.101 capacity of receiver on helium pump

pp.102-8 helium

pp.109-10 Dec. 1902: notes on apparatus

pp.111-2 helium-hydrogen mixtures

pp.113 20 Dec. 1902: notes on tubes sent to Liveing inserted between pp.112-3: note by Dewar of circulation of He-Ne mixtures

p.114 Jan-Feb. 1903: refining helium from Bath gas

pp.115-6 blank

pp.117-8 films

pp.119-22 evolution of heat from Prof.Curie's radium, June 1903.

pp.123-9 films, chiefly work on radium, June-July 1903: inserted between pp.126-7, calculations, and between pp.128-9, note of experiments with radium, August 1903, to try to confirm Sir William Huggins' assertion that he had obtained a line spectrum

p.130 notes on hydrogen thermometer, 13 June 1901

p.131 density on nitrogen from Bath gas

p.132 note on hydrogen tube

pp.133-4 argon

p.135 density of hydrogen, 1898

pp.136-8 miscellaneous rough notes

pp.139-40 Jan. 1898: specific gravity

pp.141 blank

pp.142-3 preparation of orthochromatic plates

pp.144-64 photographic notes and references

Inserted at back of book: notes on bichromate of gelatin plates; notes on spectroscope; method of finding capacity of a sphere; printed note on developer, fixing solution and clearing solution