Eindhoven, Netherlands/eindhoven013
Previous | Home | NextThis is a photo of the 1916 jubilee (25th anniversary) of the main factory of Philips. One can compare this view with the previous photo and recognize this as the right-hand side of the factory complex (note the chimney with the vertical "Philips"). This side of the factory is about 70 meters north of Emmasingel. In 1913 Gilles Holst (who had worked with Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, who was the first to liquify helium in 1926) joined Philips as the first research scientist. In 1914 he founded the Natuurkundig Laboratorium (Physics Laboratory), better known as the NatLab, which was located on the fourth and fifth floors of the main factory building. (van Arkel and de Boer did not perform their hafnium research here, but at the next NatLab site; see below). The view is north, from a vantage point just north of Emmasingel. Courtesy, Frank Philipse.
