Milestones – Xylem's Bellingham + Stanley and ILM celebrate together!

As we, Bellingham + Stanley, edge towards our centenary celebrations later this year, we look back on the many changes since our modest beginnings back in1914 when Leonard Bellingham and Frank Stanley left London’s premier optical instrument makers Adam Hilger Ltd. (later Hilger & Watts) to set up their own optical engineering business making refractometers and polarimeters in a three story house at no. 71 Hornsey Rise, London, England. 

Although based on the same optical principles, our products of today bear little resemblance to the instruments of yesteryear that played pioneering roles in early DNA research and pharmaceutical drug discovery but it's not just the instruments that have changed so much over the years, it is also true of how scientists exchanged data too!

In the early years, just a few international journals were available to the scientific community but as distant markets became more accessible and print technology evolved, publishers like International Labmate ceased on the opportunity by offering high quality, full colour print magazines and very soon, new partnerships were being formed between instrument makers, publicists and scientists and the World began to share innovation across the globe.

Today as part of Xylem Inc, Bellingham + Stanley continues to build on the legacy left behind by Messrs. Bellingham in continuum with International Labmate as we celebrate our anniversaries together...