'Butter analysis'
Date
1901
Creator - Organisation
George Newnes Limited, Publisher
Object type
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Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 153mm
width (print): 200mm
width (print): 200mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Interior view of the Government Laboratories at Clement's Inn Passage, Strand, London. Showing a male technician raising a glass retort up the the light, and holding a second piece of glassware in his right hand. There is a laboratory bench in front, with a microscope and various glass containers. Behind, more glassware containing liquids, and with inserted filter papers. The main image is slightly out of focus, perhaps due to motion.
Captioned in pencil verso: 'Butter analysis'. 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: 'Testing butter and cheese'.
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: 'Butter analysis'. 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: 'Testing butter and cheese'.
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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