THE HISTORY AND PROSPECTS OF LABORATORY AND PRACTICAL WORK IN CHEMISTRY

Abstract

The article provides a historical overview of the origin of laboratories for experimental work. Chemical laboratories, in fact, as buildings and workplaces for scientific and educational research in the process of their development, have been surprisingly little studied by historians of science. When writing papers on the activities of private institutes and laboratories, the interest of researchers has always been more focused on the people who worked in them. As a result, aspects of the laboratory space such as architectural feature, construction history, specification, internal layout and instrumentation, as well as legal status such as public or academic structures, were excluded from their description. In addition, chemistry experiments are currently divided into laboratory and practical. We have analyzed their meaning, similarities and differences. In the future, it became possible to do laboratory work not only traditionally in laboratories, but also through watching videos, as well as virtually experimenting. The article provides examples with evidence and reviews of foreign programs on how effective these methods are.