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    Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.22219

    Tobacco analysis, Government Laboratories

    Date
    1901
    Creator - Organisation
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 195mm
    width (print): 156mm
    Subject
    Content object
    Description
    Interior view of the drying equipment at the Government Laboratories, Clement's Inn Passage, Strand, London. Showing a floor level boiler on the left of the image, with a technician to the right, placing or removing a set of small ceramic dishes from one of a series of wall-mounted and glass-fronted dryers.

    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: 'Extracting moisture from tobacco'.

    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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