Gilbert Chemistry Set

[Eleanor Heidecker]

DrGilbert was a Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Natural Sciences at UT Austin, prior to moving to Santa Clara University as Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. His research interests were in organic chemistry, with special emphasis on synthetic methodology and reactive intermediates. He is extremely proud of the graduate and undergraduate students he has mentored during his career and is pleased that their discoveries in research resulted in a useful chemical reagent being named after him. In addition to his dozens of research publications, he is the co-author of a textbook for undergraduate organic laboratory instruction that is currently in its 10th edition.

During his tenure at UT Austin, he held several administrative positions and served on a number of committees at all levels of the university. He chaired the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and was interim chair of the Department of Human Ecology. At Santa Clara University, he chaired the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and was also interim chair of the Department of Sociology. He is currently Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at UT Austin and Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Santa Clara University.

He enjoys opera, theater, travel, wine, and is an apiarist. He and his spouse, Lucia, have a joint research project focusing on women in California and globally who are lead winemakers, and have developed a website (www.womenwinemakers.com) that engenders their work. Lucia was formerly a Professor of Educational Psychology and Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies at UT Austin, Academic Vice President and Provost at SCU, and is now Professor Emerita of Psychology at Santa Clara University.

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Known to family and friends as "Gil", Dr. Haight spent his professional life as a professor of chemistry, exploring and perfecting the delivery of scientific education to college students in a career that spanned the globe.

Born in Seattle on June 8, 1922, Haight spent his early years on Bainbridge Island. Gil graduated from Bainbridge High School in 1939, attended Stanford University as an undergraduate then Princeton University where he received his PhD in chemistry in 1946. Haight worked on the Manhattan Project during the war as part of his PhD research. His avowed interest in chemistry originated in order to avoid becoming a teacher, which he ironically dedicated his life to after discovering a knack for tutoring his fellow college students.

Following his marriage to Shirley Grapek Haight of Boston, Massachusetts in 1946, Haight became a Rhodes Scholar in Oxford, England where their first child, Jennifer Lea, was born. His subsequent teaching positions in chemistry took the growing family to the University of Hawaii, Kansas University, George Washington University, Swarthmore College, Texas A&M and finally to the University of Illinois where Haight taught from 1966 to his retirement in 1989. He did continuing research during sabbaticals in Copenhagen, Denmark; San Diego, California; Canberra, Australia; and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Always dedicated to teaching chemistry to freshman students, Haight ultimately pioneered the blending of multimedia and television into the lectures and labs. He also mixed humor and explosive demonstrations as part of his famous Christmas lectures where he revealed what life would be like a few billion years from now after the sun had exploded and temperatures plummeted to minus 465 Fahrenheit. In 1989 he won the American Chemical Society Science Award for his innovative efforts in teaching He authored a number of chemistry text books used widely throughout the United Sates and world.

Haight is survived by his brother Warren Haight of Hawaii, his sister Mary Pease of Seattle, his wife Shirley and their children: Jennifer Haight of Kauai, Hawaii, Loisanne "Sandy" Haight of Seattle, Washington, Charles "Chad" Haight of Bainbridge Island. Washington and Stephanie Haight-Kuntze of Berlin, Germany, 7 grandchildren and 4 great grandchildren.

Haight was both serious scientist and a very funny man, mixing humor into his teachings and daily life. A master of puns, he was happiest when eliciting an extended groan from those in his company. When he wasn't teaching, he could most often be found on the tennis court where his unorthodox game drove his opponents crazy.

The toy chemistry set has its roots in late 18th- and 19th-century portable chemistry kits sold in boxes like this to scientists and students for practical use. The kits contained glassware, chemicals, perhaps a scale or a mortar and pestle, and other necessary equipment for carrying out chemical tests in medicine, geology or other scientific fields or for classroom instruction.

Many kits were assembled in England, but the chemicals came from Germany. The approach of World War I quickly dried up that supply, as manufacturers diverted remaining resources to the war effort; chemistry set production declined.

This era also saw a boost in environmental awareness and a distrust of chemistry and government-funded science. Rachel Carson published Silent Spring, warning of the deleterious effects of pesticides. The anti-nuclear movement was on the rise. The American people were becoming aware of the devastating effects of Agent Orange, the chemical defoliant used in Vietnam. And by the 1970s and 1980s, science had lost its magic, as had the chemistry set.

The A. C. Gilbert Company was an American toy company, once one of the largest in the world. Gilbert originated the Erector Set, which is a construction toy similar to Meccano in the rest of the world, and made chemistry sets, microscope kits, and a line of inexpensive reflector telescopes. In 1938, Gilbert purchased the American Flyer, a manufacturer of toy trains. The Gilbert Company struggled after the death of its founder in 1961 and went out of business in 1967. Its trademarks and toy lines were sold to other companies.

First known as the Mysto Manufacturing Company, the company was founded in 1909 in Westville, Connecticut, by Alfred Carlton Gilbert, a magician, and his friend John Petrie, to provide supplies for magic shows.[2][3] Their "Mysto Magic" magician's sets were marketed from the 1910s until the 1950s. The sets contained a variety of objects including interlocking rings, playing cards, and a magic wand.[4]

In 1911, Gilbert invented the Erector construction toy concept, inspired by railroad girders used by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad in its mainline electrification project. Gilbert and his wife Mary developed cardboard prototypes to get the right sizes, openings, and angles to create a robust buildable girder pattern. The Erector set was introduced in 1911, as the Mysto Erector Structural Steel Builder, at the New York City Toy Fair.[3]

In 1920, the company began selling regenerative vacuum tube radio receivers designed by the C. D. Tuska Company, and the following year, in order to increase interest in radio, began operating station WCJ, which was the first broadcasting station licensed in the state of Connecticut.[5] However, the receiver sales were ended after the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company threatened legal action, on the grounds that Tuska's patent rights did not extend to other companies,[6] and WCJ was shut down in late 1922.[7]

A line of inexpensive reflector telescopes followed the Sputnik-inspired science craze in the late 1950s. In 1958, the company promoted its science toys by commissioning a comic book, Adventures in Science, from Custom Comics. In the comic, a mysterious "Mr. Science" leaps through time and space with a bored teenage boy to interest him in science.[13]

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Gilbert Newton Lewis was born near Boston, October 23, 1875. At the age of nine he was taken by his parents to live in Lincoln, Nebraska, where his schooling, though meager, was sufficient to admit him to the preparatory school of the University of Nebraska in 1889. Here he remained until the end of the sophomore year. In 1893 he transferred to Harvard College, and, after graduating in 1896, he spent a year in teaching at Philips Academy at Andover. He then returned to Harvard for graduate work and received the A.M. degree in 1898 and the Ph.D. in 1899. After remaining for one year at Harvard as instructor, he went abroad on a traveling fellowship and had a semester with Ostwald at Leipzig and one with Nernst at Gttingen. The following three years he spent at Harvard as instructor, and then accepted a position as Superintendent of Weights and Measures in the Philippine Islands, and chemist in the Bureau of Science at Manila.

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