Blinded by Science

Wow! Great and interesting picture!
My enthusiasm for chemistry has always been very limited. I always missed a bit the action. I always thought it had to explode something or at least foam colorfully. ;-))

Just a question to the position of your PIP: is there a reason to position it in the upper RIGHT corner? The proble is with the laptop. Its screen is to small to see the whole picture. And with the laptop it's very difficult to scroll to the right and keep the PIP open at the same time. :-)
That's the reason why I position my PIPs in the upper LEFT corner :)

Lol. :D Thank you. I was never interested in science at all since they were always dissecting frogs and that made me very sad and ill. :(

Oh, I never considered how it might look on a laptop. Very sorry. I did it that way so that the 2 images can be compared side by side. Thanks for letting me know. I'll change it for you. :)

Thanks a lot! :-)

What a great old picture! And a really nice job of editing it. It looks like the one girl in the middle is using a Bunsen burner to heat up something and the condensation from it is being picked up by the girl on the far left after it has been purified (?) through water or changed by running it through another type of liquid chemical. You can see the one guy holding their first (?) effort in an inverted jar with something on the bottom to keep it in.

You might be on to something. Thanks, Kenny!

...I love those old memories...

Me too, Erika.

Beau témoignage d'autres époques d'étude !!

Merci beaucoup, Dan. :)

A marvellous family history image that, when I read the notes, was about 40 years older than I'd expected! A great job of editing and a very appropriate link, Karen.

Yes, it's hard to believe it's over 100 years old already. Thanks, George!

Timetravelling ! Always exciting, Karen !

Danke, Ulrich. I love time travel too.

The photo is great and beautifully edited, Karen!

Thank you, * ઇઉ *! :)

Fab photo and musical match.

Thanks, Rachel!

I love such old photos and you did a great job restoring it. Chemistry wasn't my favourite, I only seem to remember experiments going wrong- usually nothing happening where somethng should have happened;-)

Hi Karen

I really like the job you have done here.
It reminds me so much of my chemistry lessons at school, in an old building, and with equipment of this era..
As to what they were doing, well Kenny is pretty well spot on. They are making some kind of gas, and collecting it over water. I don't know how old they are, but sensibly, what do they ever make in school, hydrogen and oxygen, maybe carbon dioxide..
Since what is being heated looks dark and solid, my guess is they are making oxygen by heating solid potassium permanganate.....

Best Wishes, and a good weekend
Peter

www.thoughtco.com/how-to-make-gases-for-lab-608274

Thanks for the link and the info (and the compliment :) Peter. What you and Kenny have said makes a bit more sense of this image to me now.

Wow, potassium permanganate is scary stuff. When we had koi fish in our pond we had to use that stuff to get rid of parasites and if you breathe it in powder form it can really mess you up! :-O

This is a great old picture! Thank you for showing.

Thank you. I'm so glad you enjoyed it, Rosalyn. :)

An absolute gem of a 'Cool Old Photo', Karen. Perfect in monochrome. With all the advances in photography I think this photo is equally as good as any photos taken today. Love all the different expressions. A marvellous range of tones too. A clever musical match for 'Sight and Sound'. A good one!

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Thanks, Roger! Wow, that's great to hear. I'm not sure, but I think maybe my grandpa took this. He would have been a budding photographer at that time. I know he and my grandma were together from a young age.

It's great to see women in science, then.

It really is!

une très précieuse photo ! ces jeunes filles ont un air très moderne ! c'est une très bonne idée de poster de vieilles photos de famille ; c 'est un hommage rendu aux disparus, et par cet acte nous leur donnons un peu d'immortalité !

So true. I feel very lucky to have these. Merci beaucoup for your appreciation, Nautilus. :)

I like such old pictures illustrating another time.