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Sport and General Press Agency Biography Biography
The Sport and General Press Agency is known to have been operating from 1910 until c1970 as a news and photographic agency. The company was based in Essex Street initially, before moving to Fleet Street. Much of the company's photographic archive was destroyed in a bombing raid in 1941. The business remained active in 1970, when the company won two British Press 'Picture of the Year' awards. Copyright in Sport and General Photographs passed to Alpha Photo Press Ltd.

Scope and Content
Photograph with a caption that reads: '144905. The Atomic Energy Commissariat of the French Republic. Electrode Forming Lathe. The following set up has been advised by Scribner (1) for all spectrographic analysis. A graphite cylinder is supported by a graphite rod, half the diameter of it. The assembly is arranged through a truncated cone joint. A piece is hollowed out at the top, so as to form a tiny crucible in which the sample is placed. The instrument is used for clean and quick forming of piece. The operation needs only 40 seconds the electrode is never touched by hand, keeping its original cellophane wrapper'.
Extent
1 photograph
Language
English
Level of description
ITEM
Repository name
Science Museum, London
Conditions governing access
Open access
Conditions governing Reproduction
Copies may be supplied in accordance with current copyright legislation and Science Museum Group terms and conditions