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where careful people break things on purpose until the universe confesses something true
means A room or building equipped for scientific experiments, research, testing, or the manufacture of chemicals and drugs.
from From Medieval Latin laboratorium, "a place for working," built on Latin laborare, "to labor, to toil" — the same root that gives us labor itself. The word arrived in English around the early 17th century, when it still smelled of the alchemist's furnace; only later did it cool into the tidy, glassware-lined rooms we picture now. At heart it simply names the place where work — sweaty, patient, hands-on work — gets done.
- name origin
- From Latin laborare, to labor or toil
- safety relic
- Eyewash stations exist because acid finds eyes fast
- fume hoods
- Engineered to inhale danger so you don't
- glassware obsession
- Borosilicate glass shrugs off thermal shock and acids
- clean rooms
- Some allow fewer particles than a surgical theater
bell labs — at&t research facility in new jersey that invented the transistor (1947) and unix
pasteur institute — french research center founded by louis pasteur in paris (1887) for infectious disease study
cavendish laboratory — university of cambridge physics lab where the electron was discovered by j.j. thomson (1897)
lawrence berkeley lab — nuclear physics laboratory in california founded by ernest lawrence, discoverer of the cyclotron (1931)