| AdminHistory | The Galton Laboratory began life as the Anthropometric Laboratory which was part of the London International Health Exhibition of 1885. Visitors to the Exhibition were tested with a battery of machines many of which Galton had devised himself and paid a fee for a copy of their measurements and other data. Over 9,000 people contributed to the exercise, and the data gathered were not properly analyzed until the 1920s/30s. Following its success at the Exhibition, Galton established a permanent home for the Anthropometric Laboratory at the South Kensington Museum (which was renamed the Victoria & Albert Museum). Again, so much data was gathered that it was not until advantages in computer technology in the 1980s that any appropriate statistical analysis was done of these. |
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