From Baking Up Nitrous Oxide to Making Goals: Rindge Tech ’s L. A. Brennan

From the archives of the Wood Library-Museum, readers can see nitrous oxide –generating apparatus hand-drawn (upper left) in the 1914 laboratory notebook (upper right) of Lawrence A. Brennan of Rindge Technical School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Young Brennan records how he heated ammonium nitrate to produce laughing gas in his chemistry classroom. Brennan then traded his glassware in for a puck and played hockey at Boston College. About 35 yr after generating laughing gas at Rindge Tech, he “got his jollies” by becoming a Boston College Alumni Association representative. (Copyright © the American Society of Anesthesiologists’ Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology.)
Source: Anesthesiology - Category: Anesthesiology Source Type: research