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Introductory GC booklet by Walt Jennings
Discussions about GC and other "gas phase" separation techniques.
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About 20 years ago I attended a seminar organised by J&W and presentations were given by Walt Jennings. At that seminar a booklet was distributed to all attendees. That booklet was written by Walt Jennings and was a nice and brief introduction to gas chromatography. Unfortunately, I lost somehow my copy of that booklet and I would like to find it somewhere. I am afraid I don't remember the title of that booklet, by the image of its cover is still vivid in my memory. Though I am now very experienced in GC, I am probably nostalgic to have it again in my library, but also to lend to new chromatographers. Would any of you know about this booklet and where I could get it as a hardcopy or in digital format?
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Would it be this one by any chance?
i remember going to some of Walt's brilliant lectures some 30+ years ago - he explained theory and equations so simply and clearly. It was like a veil lifted from my eyes, being relatively new to GC at the time.
I recall him saying that the butane gas cigarette lighter nozzle was specifically designed to accept a 701 syringe needle for sampling and injecting a non retained peak for establishing column linear velocity
I also recall his consumables catalogue "Made by Elves" with the occasional elf recipes on some pages. Recipes supplied by his staff
i remember going to some of Walt's brilliant lectures some 30+ years ago - he explained theory and equations so simply and clearly. It was like a veil lifted from my eyes, being relatively new to GC at the time.
I recall him saying that the butane gas cigarette lighter nozzle was specifically designed to accept a 701 syringe needle for sampling and injecting a non retained peak for establishing column linear velocity
I also recall his consumables catalogue "Made by Elves" with the occasional elf recipes on some pages. Recipes supplied by his staff
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Ralph
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Yes Ralph, that’s indeed the booklet. Do you by any chance have it scanned to share it?
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I don't. It was pre - internet and word processor days
There are some 50+ pages. I can try to scan and get them into a pdf format?
Do you have an email address that you are happy to put on the forum page?
There are some 50+ pages. I can try to scan and get them into a pdf format?
Do you have an email address that you are happy to put on the forum page?
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Ralph
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I would really appreciate if you would be able to scan it for me as a pdf file and then send it to sorinstanescu2003@yahoo.com. Thanks a lot Ralph.
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I will contact you at that address and have sent a test scan of page 1 of 52 in pdf format to see if the quality is OK before proceeding further
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Ralph
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That would be perfect. Thanks again, Ralph.
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Scanned and sent.
Happy to share with anyone else as an historical booklet
Happy to share with anyone else as an historical booklet
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Thanks. I received it.
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I would like a copy also. Maybe post it somewhere on this forum (if not a violation of copyright).
Mr. Jennings was a very sweet man. I walked up to him at Pitt Con 2002, and thanked him for all the chromatography training I got from "the elves". He was very gracious, though a little confused.
Mr. Jennings was a very sweet man. I walked up to him at Pitt Con 2002, and thanked him for all the chromatography training I got from "the elves". He was very gracious, though a little confused.
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He was indeed a gentleman, innovator and an inspirational lecturer.
The booklet has been scanned as a 5Mb pdf file so difficult to upload but if you email me at my temporary address of tailingpeak@gmail.com then I will happily post it to you.
There are no known copyright issues - unlike some 1983 lecture notes that I have of his that have a declared copyright
The booklet has been scanned as a 5Mb pdf file so difficult to upload but if you email me at my temporary address of tailingpeak@gmail.com then I will happily post it to you.
There are no known copyright issues - unlike some 1983 lecture notes that I have of his that have a declared copyright
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Ralph
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I still have the last catalogue with tons of staff recipes. I think it was from 1997. Up here in Canada, we also have a chromatographic supply company that for decades had photos of cats & kittens on their "cat"alogues! Now it's hard to get a paper copy of anything.
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Now it's hard to get a paper copy of anything.
Very true, Peter made a similar comment.
This has has prompted a thought that I have posted as a separate topic on "Around the water cooler" about preserving older material for historical interest in a digital format
Very true, Peter made a similar comment.
This has has prompted a thought that I have posted as a separate topic on "Around the water cooler" about preserving older material for historical interest in a digital format
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Ralph
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quite a few of Walter's books are available on Google books. (or parts of them)
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Ujw ... &q&f=false
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https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Ujw ... &q&f=false
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LALman here. I would like a copy of the booklet. I used the 'GC reference section' of the 1994-95 J&W catalog as a teaching reference to optimize my instruments in my first lab job that included GC-ECD and GC-MS doing PCB's, pesticides, and herbicides. My catalog has fallen completely apart but I still keep it.
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