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Humboldt State University ® Department of Chemistry
Robert A. Paselk Scientific Instrument Museum
About the Museum
I have been collecting obsolete instruments, mostly from the Chemistry and Physics Departments, at HSU for a number of years. I currently have a wide variety of small instruments purchased between c.1925 and 1970 refurbished and documented. I will continue to add instruments to the collection as they become available and documented. All of the instruments in this "WWW museum" were used at Humboldt, and many are currently in the possession of the Chemistry Department. However, I have also included instruments which are held by other Departments at HSU, as well as instruments now in private collections.
In the summer of 2000 permanent display space was created for the museum in the Humboldt State University Library. Both permanent and rotating displays are housed in this space. A formal dedication ceremony for the Museum took place the evening of Friday, October 13, 2000.
Whenever possible the following information is provided for each instrument: 1) a photograph, 2) a brief paragraph on the usage and history of the instrument, 3) a detailed description of the instrument including its current condition, and 4) a scanned image of a contemporary vendor's catalog description of the instrument. Additional information may include the following: brief histories of manufacturers, contemporary and/or early descriptions of the instruments and their usage, documents pertaining to the specific instruments, and more detailed histories of the invention and development of select instruments.
A second purpose of this museum is to document the growth of science instruction at Humboldt as illustrated through its artifacts.
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