tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18283526.post8765253081420401837..comments2024-03-27T14:03:14.775+00:00Comments on Captain JP's log: Musketeers, polar explorers and a dodo at Two Temple PlaceJPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09475536270807856327noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18283526.post-13135665149496392332014-03-16T19:47:18.600+00:002014-03-16T19:47:18.600+00:00Have you seen this story of the BBC "discover...Have you seen <a href="http://www.classicboat.co.uk/news/j-class-in-constables-painting-preview-of-the-future/" rel="nofollow">this story</a> of the BBC "discovering" art work involving Constable?JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09475536270807856327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18283526.post-18379518061047379582014-03-16T14:22:49.441+00:002014-03-16T14:22:49.441+00:00Yes, it was basically "scientist meccano"...Yes, it was basically "scientist meccano" although meccano made to specific requirements by the machine shop at the Cavendish. As I recall, some of their meccano was left over from previous model building by John Kendrew and other components like the bases and the phosphorus atoms were built by the shop specifically for them.<br /><br />15 years later, when I was a chemistry undergrad, we could buy plastic kits for building molecular models.<br /><br />Wouldn't it be fun if one day some toy Ferris wheel showed up on Antiques Road Show and it turned out to have the original Watson/Crick pyrimidine and purine meccano pieces?Tillermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00639738519386820997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18283526.post-23699225352637453972014-03-16T12:16:33.449+00:002014-03-16T12:16:33.449+00:00Nice picture! But of course no musketeers :(
It l...Nice picture! But of course no musketeers :(<br /><br />It looked like it was made of scientist meccanno, so I guess someone's kid wanted a working Ferris wheel or something so they dismantled it.JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09475536270807856327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18283526.post-84501026941502230342014-03-15T23:09:54.598+00:002014-03-15T23:09:54.598+00:00To answer my own question, it seems as if the Scie...To answer my own question, it seems as if the Science Museum in London has a reconstruction of the double helix model of DNA containing "some of the original metal plates" used by Crick and Watson. This reconstruction includes the critical feature of the original model, that the helix is supported around a retort stand!<br /><br />Check out <a href="http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/images/i030/10299555.aspx" rel="nofollow">this page</a>.<br /><br />I guess the original model was torn down when some lab assistant needed the retort stand.Tillermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00639738519386820997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18283526.post-62612854517778427512014-03-15T21:44:48.436+00:002014-03-15T21:44:48.436+00:00There is a famous picture of Crick and Watson with...There is a famous picture of Crick and Watson with the original model at http://www.yeedor.com/insight/greatest-design-ever-discovered-double-helix/<br /><br />By the way, I have an English first edition of Watson's book The Double Helix which came out when I was an undergrad at Cambridge (and which is one of the best books ever about scientific discovery.) I should have got Crick to sign it as I often saw him around town in those days. I wonder if he would have done it? It would be worth a fortune now!Tillermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00639738519386820997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18283526.post-60634966625193861522014-03-15T18:42:09.443+00:002014-03-15T18:42:09.443+00:00I don't think so: I think they had to reconstr...I don't think so: I think they had to reconstruct itJPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09475536270807856327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18283526.post-61690566740412393982014-03-15T18:17:55.184+00:002014-03-15T18:17:55.184+00:00Fascinating.
Do you know if the original DNA mode...Fascinating.<br /><br />Do you know if the original DNA model built by Crick and Watson is still in existence?Tillermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00639738519386820997noreply@blogger.com