'Taking the "flash-point" of oil for lighthouses'
Date
1901
Creator - Organisation
George Newnes Limited, Publisher
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 175mm
width (print): 138mm
width (print): 138mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Interior view of the Government Laboratories, Clement's Inn Passage, Strand, London. A male technician is shown at a laboratory bench, working with a metal vessel which is being heated by a bunsen burner, a thermometer recording temperature. The technician manipulates a tube leading into the vessel. There is a corked and labelled specimen container on the bench, the label reading 'Heavy Mineral Oil A' and indistinctly dated, perhaps '22.2.1901' [?].
Not captioned or stamped. This image was used in the article 'The Government Laboratory', by John Mills, The Strand Magazine, vol.21, May 1901, pp.561-571, and captioned: 'Taking the "flash-point" of oil for lighthouses'.
From the papers of Thomas Thorpe. Sir Thomas Edward Thorpe (1845-1925), British chemist served as Chief Chemist to the British Government, as Director of the Government Laboratory, from 1894 to 1909. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1863.
Not captioned or stamped. This image was used in the article 'The Government Laboratory', by John Mills, The Strand Magazine, vol.21, May 1901, pp.561-571, and captioned: 'Taking the "flash-point" of oil for lighthouses'.
From the papers of Thomas Thorpe. Sir Thomas Edward Thorpe (1845-1925), British chemist served as Chief Chemist to the British Government, as Director of the Government Laboratory, from 1894 to 1909. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1863.
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