What is the appeal of a laboratory? Its potential for discovery? The experiments? Or the cool apparatus?
The experimental pharmacology laboratory of the Wellcome Physiological Research Laboratories. 1909.
Apparatus used for reaction of active nitrogen with CO, CO2, O2, and H2 at the Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory.
Early research lab – Dr. Jesse L. King (1926)
Apparatus for Ozone Production, Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory, 1926 (CHF)
One thing is sure–these images add danger, excitement and mystique to something certain; Science!
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One response to “Vintage Lab Week: The Apparatus”
I love the way people dressed for this type of work, back in the day.
It also says something when you see women of the time in such a lofty profession, it’s my understanding that women were paid quite well for that kind of work.