The interior of the Senior Scientific Laboratory, Portsmouth Dockyard, Hampshire

The interior of the Senior Scientific Laboratory in Portsmouth Dockyard. An arrangement of pressure vessels marked SWF 5389 is on benches with a large lagged item, possibly a heating unit of some kind, next to them. There are a number of G & J Weir combined pressure/vacuum gauges connected to these units. An electric motor made by W Edwards & Co (London) Ltd is in the foreground.

Object details

ID: N26114
Type: Negative
Materials: Glass plate negative
Display location: Not on display
Date made: 4 February 1946
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 120 mm x 164 mm