| Description | Showing a male technician in profile, with a magnifying glass [?] in hand. The laboratory bench has various beakers of liquids, with hydrometers floating in them, presumably for testing their accuracy in analysing alcohol content. There is a second technician behind. 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: 'Testing hydrometers'. |