Links . History

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Subcategories

Elements

International Platinum Association
www.platinuminfo.net

Platinum Guild International:
www.preciousplatinum.com

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People

Döbereiner, Johann Wolfgang
Döbereiner Firelighter
www.chemsoc.org/timeline/pages/1823.html
Döbereiner’s Lighter
www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/27722/page/4

Grove, William
Sir William Grove
Father of the Fuel Cell.
www.corrosion-doctors.org/Biographies/GroveBio.htm

Wollaston, William Hyde
A Secret History of Platinum
Melvyn Usselman, chembytes e-zine, 2001
www.chemsoc.org/chembytes/ezine/2001/usselman_dec01.htm

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Catalysis

Gas-Phase Catalysis by Platinum-Group Metals–Past, Present, and Future
Stan Golunski, JOM, October 2001, 22 – PDF file
doc.tms.org/ezMerchant/prodtms.nsf/ProductLookupItemID/...

Paul Sabatier - Nobel Lecture
The Method of Direct Hydrogenation by Catalysis.
www.nobel.se/chemistry/laureates/1912/sabatier-lecture.html

Wilhelm Ostwald - Nobel Lecture
On Catalysis.
www.nobel.se/chemistry/laureates/1909/ostwald-lecture.html

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Coins

Coins & Medals of Imperial Russia: Nicholas I
Yale University
www.library.yale.edu/slavic/coins/html/nicholas1.html

National Numismatic Collection (NNC)
Smithsonian Institution
americanhistory.si.edu/collections/numismatics/

Russian Coins and Medals
The Willis H. duPont - Georgii Mikhailovich Collection
americanhistory.si.edu/collections/numismatics/russianc/russ.htm

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Fuel Cells

Collecting the History of Fuel Cells
A Smithsonian project to gather historical materials pertaining to the history of fuel cells.
fuelcells.si.edu

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Metric System

The History of Weighing
From the National Physical Laboratory, U.K.
www.npl.co.uk/mass/faqs/history.html

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Photography

Mike Ware's Alternative Photography
Platinum and palladium printing.
www.mikeware.co.uk

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