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    Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.22220

    Motor rocker, Government Laboratories

    Date
    1901
    Creator - Organisation
    Object type
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    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 152mm
    width (print): 197mm
    Subject
    Content object
    Description
    Interior view showing a small benchtop rotary engine with a burnet beneath, driving a belt attached to a rocking sled upon which two glass jars are mounted horizontally. Taken at the Government Laboratories at Clement's Inn Passage, Strand, London.

    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: 'Motor rocker used in extracting lead from fritts and glazes'.

    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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