Box 0054.47

Scope and Contents From 1866 to 1910 all chemistry majors at Lehigh were encouraged to take the more employable AC (Analytical Chemist) degree, not the BS. In the AC program each student needed to purchase a portable assay kit to conduct mineral analyses in remote areas often within the mine itself. Over the years three of these assay kits were returned to the Department as gifts from the descendants of the alumni. One kit, originally used by Charles R. Rauch (AC 1877) was loaned by the department to the...

Scope and Contents 0054.047.02 Spittoon Chandler's Students Made Him a Ceramic Spittoon William Chandler was a cigar smoker but he understood enough about safety that he didn't smoke in the lab when teaching experimental chemistry to his students. Instead he chewed tobacco and spat into the laboratory sinks. As a subtle hint that his students (in the academic year 1875) didn't approve of his use of "chew" or of his spitting in the sink, they fabricated this pottery spittoo , engraved a death head upon...