London, England

Kensington 2-G

The Natural History Museum

The entrance

The Main Hall

Charles Darwin (1809-1882)

specimen of columbite

the original sample of columbite

Victoria and Albert Museum

world's largest museum of decorative arts

the Science Museum

entrance to the Science Museum

compounds prepared by Crookes

the original ores of Crookes

The origin of sample "1"

Crookes notebook

Close-up of the notebook

"true discoverer of thallium."

Crookes' success

spectra of Crookes

spectrum of thallium

Crookes' spectroscope

Crookes invented a spinthariscope

Crookes' spiral periodic table

exhibit on Ramsay

air liquifier used by Ramsay

the liquifier

Ramsay's liquifer at University College

sectioned cylinder

classic photo of Ramsay

model of a distillation apparatus

the capillary tube that Ramsay used

osmium lamp

first practical incandescent lamps.

tantalum lamps

Label to tantalum lamps

Label to tantalum lamps

landmark of Imperial College

stone laid by Queen Victoria in 1887

The library, just west of the Queen's Tower

The science building

The first scroll is Torrecelli

Entering the "Chemistry Side"

This stone is at the entrance

Dr. Bill Griffith (right)

Dr. Hannah Gray

Dr. Peter Morris (seated)

A Living Periodic Table

"Faraday's Samples"

The samples are ...

photograph of the Solar Physics Observatory in 1893