Links . History
Please select a category of link from the list below.
Subcategories
Elements
International Platinum Group Metals Association
www.ipa-news.com
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Platinum
www.ipa-news.com/pgm/platinum/history.htm -
Palladium
www.ipa-news.com/pgm/palladium/history.htm -
Rhodium
www.ipa-news.com/pgm/rhodium/history.htm -
Iridium
www.ipa-news.com/pgm/iridium/history.htm -
Osmium
www.ipa-news.com/pgm/osmium/history.htm -
Ruthenium
www.ipa-news.com/pgm/ruthenium/history.htm
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/en-GB/guides-advice/pt-history.aspx - Platinum History
www.preciousplatinum.com/pdf/en_uk/History_guides_uk.pdf
People
Döbereiner, Johann Wolfgang
Döbereiner Firelighter
www.chemsoc.org/timeline/pages/1823.html
Döbereiner’s Lighter
www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/d-bereiners-lighter
Grove, William
Sir William Grove
Father of the Fuel Cell.
www.corrosion-doctors.org/Biographies/GroveBio.htm
Catalysis
Gas-Phase Catalysis by Platinum-Group Metals–Past, Present, and
Future
Stan Golunski, JOM, October, 2001, Volume 53, Number 10, Pages 22–24
dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11837-001-0050-7
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
What is the History of Weighing?
From the National Physical Laboratory, U.K.
www.npl.co.uk/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.2083
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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