Start with the work your laboratory needs to do.

Universal ovens hold +5 °C above ambient to 250 °C in chambers from 28 to 750 litres. Tray dryers take 12 to 96 trays to 200 °C. The industrial muffle furnace runs at a 1100 °C working temperature with a 1200 °C maximum.

Water and oil baths cover wet heating. A serological bath runs 30 to 100 °C within ±0.5 °C; an oil bath runs 50 to 200 °C within ±1 °C with variable speed stirring.

Ovens are offered with forced convection, digital or microprocessor temperature control, and a size table that runs the full length of the range rather than a single model.

Deep freezers run from ambient to −20 °C in 4 to 15 cubic feet. Blood bank refrigerators hold 4 °C to 6 °C with an audio-visual alarm, from 85 to 400 litres, or 50 to 360 blood bags.

Both ranges are offered as a table of capacities rather than as a single unit, so the cabinet is chosen by the load it has to hold.

The blood bank range has an interior in polished stainless steel, with a digital controller and a temperature alarm.

Magnetic stirrers take 1 and 2 litre volumes with a PTFE rotor and continuously variable speed. Rotary shakers carry a 25 or 35 inch square platform driven by a 1/4 or 1/2 HP motor.

Vortex mixers, wrist-action shakers and rotators cover the smaller sample work, and homogenisers come with 30 ml and 50 ml stainless steel cups.

Magnetic stirrers, the laboratory stirrer and the vortex mixer are offered with continuously variable speed rather than fixed steps.

The single punch machine presses tablets up to 1000 mg with automatic compression and ejection on each wheel revolution. A 12 inch stainless steel coating pan runs off an oil-immersed gearbox with an independent blower and thermostatically heated air, and a canvas-lined polishing pan follows it.

Testing sits alongside production: friability in a rotating acrylic drum, hardness on the Monsanto and Pfizer type testers, disintegration across twelve removable glass vessels with stainless steel mesh bottoms, and dissolution rate.

Packing equipment covers ampoule filling, sealing, washing and clarity inspection, bottle filling, washing and cap sealing, collapsible tube filling and sealing, and a blister and strip pack leak tester with a diaphragm vacuum pump.

The sledge microtome takes large paraffin and resin blocks, whole organs and industrial materials on offsettable knife clamps. The Erma type rotary microtome produces uniform sections in one micron steps, and an automatic razor sharpener hones under an acrylic safety canopy.

Physiology recording covers kymographs, the bicycle ergograph, a six litre vital capacity spirometer usable as a gasometer, and single and six probe telethermometers.

Teaching equipment covers overhead and slide projectors with their transparencies, slides and wall or tripod projection screens, which are listed as accessories rather than as equipment.