{"id":438,"count":1,"description":"<strong>William E. Statham (1816-1899)<\/strong>\r\n\r\nThe son of Edwyn Statham, a cashier in a Nottingham distillery, Statham is best remembered for his educational science sets for home and school experimentation. The best-known is a series of chemistry sets at different levels with (as the advertisements assure the buyers) perfectly safe chemicals, but he also sold other things and described himself as an \u201cOperative chemist, optician and scientific instrument maker\u201d. His advertisement for the 1867 Paris Exhibition is particularly impressive covering, as it does, chemistry, electricity, optics, etc. The catalogue for the exhibition offers not only the chemistry sets, but also electrical, photographic and electrotype amusement as well as compound microscopes, magic lanterns and model steam engines.\r\n\r\nThe business began in Islington (London) in the 1850s, but by 1862 was established at 111 The Strand, also in London. 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