Daughter: My fiancé said I could have whatever I wanted to be inscribed on his wedding ring. What should I put?
Mother: Put what I put on your father's wedding ring.
Daughter: What does it say. I've never seen daddy with it off.
Mother: Yes. It's worked very well over the years. It says, 'Put it back on!'
Royal College of ChemistryIn 1846, Prince Albert laid the first stone for the College of Chemistry. It was founded in Jul 1845 for the purpose of instruction in chemistry with a well-appointed laboratory. Although the first British public laboratory appears to have been opened by Thomas Thomson in Glasgow (1817), the College of Chemistry in London provided the first important step for providing students the means for the systematic study of chemistry at moderate expense. The laboratories were designed by August Wilhelm Hofman, who accepted a professorship in 1845 at the instigation of Prince Albert. It became the Royal College of Chemistry in 1853 when it was taken over by the government. Sir Edward Frankland followed Hofman in 1864. In 1907 it was incorporated in the Imperial College of Science and Technology.« |
