Παλαιό Χημείο- Chemistry's Department Historical Building

The original building was built in the late 1870s. It was designed by the famous architect Ernst Ziller and included initially the basement, ground floor and first floor. After the disastrous fire of 1911 and the extensive repairs, the central amphitheater and much later the third floor were added.

Συλλογή Αγγελάκη - Aggelakis Collection

Kostas Aggelakis collection (Herakleion, Crete) comprises books, maps and artifacts concerning navigation. Especially the collection displays 17 types of speedometers. It also comprises sextants, compasses and other instruments for navigation plotting. The instruments are dating from middle 19th century to middle 20th.century.
Kostas Aggelakis has donated to the Hellenic Archives of Scientific Instruments a Hughes sextant (c. 1938) and two speedometers.

Σχολή Hill - Hill girls' School

John-Henry Hill was born in the U.S.A. in 1791. In 1821 he marries Fanny-Francis-Maria Mulligan, and together they come in Athens. In July 1831, Greece's first girls' school (Parthenagogeion) is founded in Plaka, near the Archaia Agora. In the beginning there were a few schoolgirls, but after a few years they reached the number of 500.

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