Six small experimental vats: general view of six small experimental vats

Item

Reference Code: GBR/1849/FP/158/2/A/II/9

Creator

From the Fonds: Darwin, Charles Robert, 1809-1882 (naturalist) (Person)
From the Fonds: Downs, Brian Westerdale, 1893-1984 (literary scholar, translator and college head) (Person)
From the Fonds: Hartree, Douglas Rayner, 1897-1958 (scientist) (Person)
From the Fonds: Rouse, William Henry Denham, 1863-1950 (scholar and eduational reformer) (Person)
From the Fonds: Todd, Alexander Robertus, 1907 - 1997 (Baron Todd of Trumpington, Professor of Organic Chemistry) (Person)

Additional Description

General

Further information from label in album: Plant is loaded into upper six vats covered with water and allowed to steep for 12 hours. The liquor from 'steeping vats' is then run off into six lower beating vats where steam and air are blown in and teh indigo blue separates out and is filtered off, drained and pressed into cakes which are cut into cubes and air dried.