![]() ![]() Prior to that, much chemistry was done with whatever bowls and jars were already available. Dedicated laboratory equipment did not truly exist prior to the early 1800s and even then would have been primitive bearing little resemblance to familiar modern glassware. Erlenmeyer Flasks, glass retorts, Griffin/Berzelius beakers, separatory funnels, Leibig condensers, and even test tubes date back only as far as the late 18th century at best some of these were clearly developed in the mid to late 19th century. Laboratory glassware frequently shows up in period settings that predate their invention. All the same, most of what he does will at least look like chemistry, since nothing shouts "science" to the casual viewer more than a guy in a lab coat fiddling with a beaker of colored liquid. Never mind that real science does not generally call for all of these things at the same time - or within the same discipline! - the Mad Scientist doesn't specialize. In older works, a caged Killer Gorilla - presumably as a test subject and/or henchman - was a popular addition.Ginormous knife switches for completing dangerous electric circuits.Big levers or control panels ( that may or may not explode).May be in the dungeon of the Haunted Castle, or on an isolated tropical island.Dusty piles of incomprehensible failed experiments, which may or may not suddenly become a danger to anyone wandering around unsupervised.A big worn chalkboard or several, filled with complicated equations, indecipherable diagrams and abstruse symbols.Optionally, depending on your flavor of Mad Scientist, you may find a wall generously populated with chains and manacles (just to make sure the experimental subjects stay handy and don't wander away).A whole bunch of glassware, especially test tubes, beakers, flasks of colored liquid, distilling columns, condensers, burettes, Bunsen burners, and that thing you get when you hook a bunch of them together.Bits of animals and people preserved in formaldehyde.Add spinning tape reels for extra credit. A 60s-style mainframe computer with big dials and switches on the front.A roof that opens to the sky, to let the lightning in and/or the Death Ray out.A big honking Jacob's Ladder (the thing that looks like a rabbit-ear antenna with an electrical arc between the posts).Optional, though, is the winch for raising the table up to the roof. Two if the Mad Scientist does brain transplants. Regardless of location, they also must contain most of the following lab equipment: Particularly enterprising scientists may have multiple such labs in different points of their home base. This is typically a refurbished dungeon of some sort, with aging stone walls some are instead in higher locations, for better access to lightning, astronomical lookouts, and vantage points for death rays. Usually pronounced "lah-BOHR-ah-tor-ee" in ominous, stentorian tones.Įvery Mad Scientist has to have a lab. ![]()
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