Kirkaldy's Testing and Experimenting Works

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Kirkaldy's Testing and Experimenting Works

Image: © Nigel Mykura Taken: 6 Feb 2015

This building at 99 Southwark St was built in 1874 specifically to house "Kirkaldy's Testing and Experimenting Works". It was a place where experiments took place on materials to determine their strength. This was done primarily using Kirkaldy's own design of testing machine. The building has a museum which houses the machine on the ground floor and the museum is open on special days only

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Image Location

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51.505895
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-0.10133