Philip Harris Ltd.

Philip Harris Ltd was a British laboratory supply company (part of Philip Harris plc) which became a major supplier of equipment for school science.

The company was originally based in Digbeth, Birmingham, and was started by Thomas Ellis, a surgeon, in 1817.

Philip Harris started as a manufacturer of chemists' and surgical products, adding medicines in 1866.

In the mid-1960s, the company played an important role in developing and supplying equipment for the new Nuffield science courses in England and Wales.

[1][2] This innovation continued into the 1980s and 1990s with the development of some of the earliest scientific data-loggers to appear anywhere outside academic research laboratories.