Bøker av Colin A. Russell

This unique book covers the crucial role that chemistry has played in the growth and development of railways in Britain.

This is the first scientific biography of Edward Frankland, probably the most eminent chemist of nineteenth-century Britain. Frankland discovered the chemical bond and founded the science of organometallic chemistry. Russell's authoritative study of newly discovered private papers will be of great interest to chemists, historians, and general readers concerned with social history.

Focuses on the history of organic chemistry, which arose improbably out of early speculations about the construction of chemical compounds, and their electrochemical nature. Dealing with the rise of electrochemistry and the work of Berzelius, this book considers aspects of the contributions of Frankland and those of Kekule and Hofmann.