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    Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.22212

    Govenment Laboratories

    Date
    1901
    Creator - Organisation
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 142mm
    width (print): 199mm
    Subject
    Content object
    Description
    Interior view of the Government Laboratories at Clement's Inn Passage, Strand, London. Showing male technicians engaged in various tasks at laboratory benches, including [right of image] analysis of bottles of wine. Thomas Edward Thrope appears towards the background centre of the image.

    Captioned in pencil: 'Analysis of food & drink (in general)'; and in pencil 'G. Philip & Son'. With instructions for size of reproduction. 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: 'The main laboratory: testing alcoholic drinks, botanic beers, tinctures, etc.'.

    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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