Links . History
Please select a category of link from the list below.
Subcategories
Elements
International Platinum Association
www.platinuminfo.net
-
Platinum
www.platinuminfo.net/pgm_pt_histo.html -
Palladium
www.platinuminfo.net/pgm_pl_histo.html -
Rhodium
www.platinuminfo.net/pgm_rh_histo.html -
Iridium
www.platinuminfo.net/pgm_ir_histo.html -
Osmium
www.platinuminfo.net/pgm_os_histo.html -
Ruthenium
www.platinuminfo.net/pgm_ru_histo.html
Platinum Guild International:
www.preciousplatinum.com
- Platinum History
- includes: Platinum, an Ancient Lost Treasure; Egyptian Burial; Pre-Incan Adornments; Confused Conquistadores; Alchemy; The Metal of Kings; Papal Chalice; The Metric System; Major Discoveries; Fabergé Famous Eggs; Palatial Platinum Room; Cartier; The Titanic; A Major Discovery; British Royals; World War II.
www.preciousplatinum.com/output/Page49.asp - Platinum History TimeLine
www.preciousplatinum.com/output/Page53.asp
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
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
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/
The Willis H. duPont - Georgii Mikhailovich Collection
americanhistory.si.edu/collections/numismatics/russianc/russ.htm
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
Metric System
The History of Weighing
From the National Physical Laboratory, U.K.
www.npl.co.uk/mass/faqs/history.html
-
Unit of Length (meter)
Historical context of the SI.
physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/meter.html - Unit of Mass (kilogram)
Historical context of the SI.
physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/kilogram.html
Photography
Mike Ware's Alternative Photography
Platinum and palladium printing.
www.mikeware.co.uk