MAY. 1952
GAS-COLLECTION BOTTLES EARL SHUMAKER
Kent State University, Kent, Ohio
IN OUR freshman 1;%horatories we have the problem of getting all the equipment the student is going to need into one drawer. We have partially solved this problem by having the gas-collecting bottles used as common property in the different laboratory periods. We have set aside one drawer in each row of desks for their storage. This allows four bottles for each student, or a total of 24 bottles in each row of desks.
For the sake of neatness, we have had racks made of half-inch plywood, which gives a greater strength than a half-inch board. Holes for the bottles to stand in are cut with a Pawood circle cutter in a post drill. We have found that we are not only saving space badly needed by each individual student, but we are also cutting down materially on investment in gas-collection bottles.
