Microscope Museum

Collection of antique microscopes and other scientific instruments

 

Bunsen burner, Bottogas (1940s)

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This is a laboratory Bunsen burner, engraved with “BOTTOGAS”, and should be dated to the 1940s. (Figure 1). Bottogas was a British brand of B.P. Gases Ltd, a company supplying refillable cylinders of gas for lighting, cooking, and heating, in business from the 1930s to the early 1970s.

 

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Figure 1. Bunsen burner Bottogas, as featured in a c.1939 Gallenkamp´s catalogue.