The new physics building at the national physical laboratory

• Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
• Year: 1931
• Weight: 123 KB
• Volume: 50
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0368-4075
• DOI: 10.1002/jctb.5000502903

✦ Synopsis

priiiic mover, tlic iiinn who set tlic bdI rolling, 111.. John iinrgrcnrcs, is, fortunntcly, still with us, nntl wc thinlr tliilt he nnd the otlier originnl members were glnd to meet toxcthcr nnd enjoy tlie wcll-~:110sen nrords of the itlnster of the C'onipiii~g nnd the rcfreslimcnt provided in the old roo111 opening out into the still older gnrdcii, with its mulbcrry tree i i n d ils Icndcn cistcrn. The lenden cistern in the gnrdcn lins :in interesting history. J t was formerly the iloinestic cistern in the h o l m of the .4tlrinson ii~iiilg, mnlrers of plitirmnceiitical clicmicnls in Aldersgnte Street since the y x i r 1G5.1. Tlic business, ilic oldcst of its liind in tlic City of TAondon, \'its ~lcqi~irccl by AIcssrs. IVIiiffcn forty yc:irs or so :igo;