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Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 7:43 pm
by Ron
If I remember correctly, the GC in "My Cousin Vinny was a Hewlett Packard 5740 with dual packed columns and dual flame analysis detectors. It was used to analyze the rubber from a car tire. Not my first choice for this analysis.
Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 8:10 pm
by zokitano
If I remember correctly, the GC in "My Cousin Vinny was a Hewlett Packard 5740 with dual packed columns and dual flame analysis detectors. It was used to analyze the rubber from a car tire. Not my first choice for this analysis.
Well Ron, you're partially right. The GC Expert used HP 5710A GC with dual columns and flame "analysis" detectors. Look for yourself:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjEjjnw2 ... re=related
in the time interval (of the clip) 2:00-2:15
or look in here:
http://www.hpmuseum.net/video/WebMyCous ... -16sec.wmv
Best regards
Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 9:20 pm
by JGK
Me Personally, Im in the market for a fully functional Tricorder, anybody know who sell them?
A few in our labs would make life a lot easier
Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 11:50 pm
by Ron
I've heard getting the di-lithium crystals to power the Tricorder can be a real pain.
Chromatography and movies
Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 8:57 pm
by THNDRacket
I don't remember if this is the first such device I saw a couple years ago, but they are well under way to a tricorder:
http://www.ahurascientific.com/chemical ... /index.php
Disclaimer: not affiliated with the company in any way, just thought the technology was interesing. And a very a propos name for the company as well.
Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 1:33 am
by Fabiano
Just now I saw this topic...
The Medicine Man wasn't just a movie for me:
http://thecolorwriter.blogspot.com/2009 ... de-me.html
BTW, comments are welcome!
Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 3:46 pm
by Victor
There was a Perkin-Elmer Sigma 3 GC in the movie ET.
I don't think it actually did anything, but it was just sitting there making the laboratory look scientific. I've forgotten the part of the movie-but wasn't ET captured and the lab boys were trying to work out what made him/her tick?
Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 6:13 pm
by Paladin
Yep. In My Cousin Vinny, not only the results are mentioned but IIRC, the make, model and intrument features are mentioned as well.
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 7:43 pm
by WK
Hi
I remember watching a 1980s US documentary once where Bob Finnigan (Finnigan MAT??) was talking about his development of the benchtop MS attached to GC. I think someone in a forensic lab approached him with the idea in the late 60s I guess.
Very interesting at the time but can't remember much of it now.
Changing the subject slightly - how about lab personnel stereotypes?
Who was in the lab in Men In Black - Linda Fiorentina - she wasn't your typical mortuary attendent! I know it was comedy. Doc from Back To The Future?
However Beaker and Bunsen Honeydew are way too real!!!
WK