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Laboratories

Facility that provides controlled conditions in which scientific or technological research, experiments, and measurement may be performed

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Images from the collections

Images referencing Laboratories

139 images from works
  • Laboratorios Kuba, Kouri-Basnuevo : la marca más famosa en productos antparasitarios / Laboratorios Kuba.
  • The interior of a chemical laboratory with six people working in it (above), a table of symbols (below). Coloured line engraving after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Researcher in laboratory
  • A chemist's laboratory, with the apparatus numbered for a key. Engraving, 1748.
  • K.Pearson, ed., Treasury of Human Inheritanc
  • M0013177: Model of Wellcome's floating laboratory
  • An alchemist with his assistants in his laboratory. Engraving by J.P. Le Bas, 1747, after D. Teniers.
  • The laboratory of J.B. Boussingault in Liebfrauenberg abbey, Gœrsdorf, France: interior. Photograph.
  • An alchemist at his furnace, hunched over bellows. Coloured mezzotint by H. Dawe after D. Teniers the younger.
  • High sensitivity multichannel recording by means of channel selector and "micrograph" recorder / Kipp & Zonen.

Works from the collections

424 works

    • Books

    Istrumenti di chemica : un laboratorio del XIX secolo / Gabriella Rambaldi.

    Rambaldi, Gabriella. | Date: 1996
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Frederick John Warburton Thompson: papers

    Thompson, Frederick John Warburton (d. c.1951) | Date: 1900s | Reference: MS.9294
    • Pictures

    An apothecary in his laboratory concocting a mixture. Wood engraving by F.Mc F (?) after, 1876, after H.S. Marks.

    Marks, Henry Stacy, 1829-1898. | Date: 8 July 1876 | Reference: 16363i
    • Books

    The national labs : science in an American system, 1947-1974 / Peter J. Westwick.

    Westwick, Peter J. | Date: 2003
    • Archives and manuscripts

    M0006854: Six scenes of laboratory and shop work relating to pharmacies

    | Date: 1 May 1940 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/58/27
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive

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Research
Alchemists
Alchemy
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Science - Experiments
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