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Description: | Parcel Post From F. DAVIDSON & Co., Ophthalmic and Manufacturing Opticians and Instrument Makers, 29, GT. PORTLAND STREET, LONDON, W. London Dec 30th 1915 To Dr James H. Nicoll 4 Woodside Place charing Cross Glasgow. *********************est London Hospital , Hammersmith. ( written and printed on the label attached to the front of the box. There are also two Edward the VII penny red and a half peeny geen stamps on and obscuring part of the label. They are postmarked for the 30th March 1915). ISSU F. Davidson and Company late 19th early 20th century 29, Great Portland Street, London, W. England This is a cardboard box with lid and reinforced corners. It contained thirty seven small ? bakelite fittings for the end of ? drainage tubes. It is unlikely that these objects were the original contents of this box. If manufactured before Nicoll's death, in 1921, they would have been some of the first bakelite objects to have found their way to Britain .The Bakelite Corporation was set up in 1910 by Leo Hendrik Baekland (1863-1944). A Belgian born in Ghent he became Professor of Physics and Chemistry at Brugge in 1885 and emigrated to America in 1889. Bakelite resin is the condensation products of phenol and formaldehyde. it rapidly replaced hard rubber, amber and wood as insulating materials in electrical and other components. See HUG 468. The carton is in itself unimportant but it's associated label is historically interesting. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | : : : : : : : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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