Government Laboratories
Date
ca.1901
Creator
Unknown, Photographer
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 153mm
width (print): 204mm
width (print): 204mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Interior view of the Government Laboratories at Clement's Inn Passage, Strand, London. Showing a male technician in profile, with a pencil behind his right ear, standing at a laboratory bench looking down a microscope. Various items of glassware and equipment are visible. Behind the technician, further into the room, are desks, a fume cupboard and other items of equipment.
Captioned in pencil verso: 'Water analysis'; and with the name 'G.Philip'. Various pencilled instructions, apparently on size for reproduction purposes.
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.
Captioned in pencil verso: 'Water analysis'; and with the name 'G.Philip'. Various pencilled instructions, apparently on size for reproduction purposes.
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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