Sadly, Brady wasn't with me.

It was really good.

I went to visit the place where Klaus discovered the elements.

He built a chemistry lab, which is now a museum.

So there's quite a lot of old equipment and stuff in sight.

There was still quite a lot of snow about, and we arrived, went up the steps, and of course we were wearing thick coats, so we had to take off our coats and things.

And then we were ushered into the Lecture theatre, which closer built Not a very big lead to theatre.

And to my surprise, there was a TV crew.

They're waiting to interview me pizza, So lots of periodic video cards were dished out, and I gave a short interview.

Can't remember what I said.

I didn't think it was very profound.

Yeah, excuse me.

And then I was greeted by a professor who spoke some English but not terribly fast to told.

Miss about.

Klaus and Clouds originally was a pharmacist making drugs, medicines and then he moved to cosigned is professor of chemistry on dhe.

This was his lecture theatre, and in pride of place is his portrait.

There's quite a nice marble topped bench and behind on old fashioned black board on which I actually wrote rather note early periodic videos don't calm just so that the students are other visitors might watch it.

Do you write it in permanent marker?

Unfortunately, Justin chilled.

This department was famous for a whole series of professors who came after Klaus.

On one of them was a chemist called Z Union, who was the first person to make synthetic Angeline synthesized and Elin from simpler molecules.

And there's a terrific bust of him.

Made a marble with very long mustache.

I think it must be dangerous.

Way went through into an anti chamber and then into a really old lab, which had fume cupboards that had no fans because electric motors hadn't been invented but instead had the stove underneath and the draft from the hot air.

Going up the chimney flue was enough to cause some suction, and that was really nice.

And there were Pesa LS and borders and all sorts of old equipment But the really exciting thing was to go in where there was a display case with rows and rows of samples, new compounds, new elements that had been made by a ll, the different professors and including those with three samples of oxide chloride on DDE routine in metal itself, which had all been made by Klaus.

Apparently he noticed the presence of this element when he was purifying some or from platinum on Ruth Innam Oxide is quite volatile and has a very distinctive smell.

And he actually smelled the elements before he discovered it, which is quite interesting.

Take on how you discover elements.

That's amazing.

He smoked.

He smoked something different.

Yes, there's also in this cupboard.

There was the first sample of Anna Lean, which, and Alan is a very pale pale.

It's yellow liquid, but it's gone off in the 140 years since then, so it's now much darker color, but it still looked quite impressive.

Zillions original sample.

It was a lovely coupled on DDE.

I could have spent hours looking different samples and if you've been there, we could have made ah whole series of videos, but probably I didn't know enough about the compounds to do all of them.

And then I was taken to sit at the desk of one of the professors.

I don't know whether it was Klaus is his original desk or had been put there just afterwards, but it felt really good to sit there, toe, hold the pen and be a Russian professor.