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Casket
Ornate casket made of 'Thomas steel' presented to Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, Welsh steel process inventor, by the Prager Eisenindustrie Gesellschaft in Vienna in 1882. Mild steel with some ornate cast iron decoration symbolic of S.G.T. process of extracting phosphorus impurities from pig iron.
Collection Area
Industry
Item Number
76.14I/1
Historical Associations
Associated Person/Body: Thomas, Sidney Gilchrist
Association Type: associated person
Date: 1882
Acquisition
Donation, 28/4/1976
Measurements
Length
(mm): 331
Width
(mm): 375
Height
(mm): 350
Material
steel
cast iron
Location
In store
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