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Article: Australian food science 2 *: 1940 to 1970--some personal recollections. (Retrospective).
- Article from:
- Nutrition & Dietetics: The Journal of the Dieticians Association of Australia
- Article date:
- March 1, 2002
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In a recent visit to the Science Museum in South Kensington, London, I found myself looking at a laboratory from the 1890s. It was in essence the laboratory I had walked into when I joined Kraft Walker Cheese Co from university in 1938. The beam balances and glassware were the same. Nothing much had changed in forty years. We soon got modern balances with air damping and remote control of the addition of the minor weights, but it was some years before Quickfit glassware appeared: reflux condensers and the Soxhlets for fat extractions were secured to the flasks with corks. Kraft had a large, for those days, laboratory staff of about twelve, mainly girls. There was not a ...