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Shm.3

Maker

Short & Mason; Ltd.

Title

Meteorological and Other Scientific Instruments

Description

One copy of bound booklet on scientific instruments. B&W printed in the UK.

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Gri.44

Maker

Griffin and Tatlock Limited

Title

Scientific Apparatus Catalogue No. 52 AB

Description

Green hardback catalogue with details of a broad range of products.

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Shm.2

Maker

Short & Mason; Ltd.

Title

Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue and Price List of Barometers, Compasses, Air-Meters, Self-Recording and other Scientific Instruments

Description

One copy of bound hardback on army and navy instruments. black, white and red printed. Flyers of other products from the same company are stuck on blank ruled pages.

Cover reads 'S.& M. Ltd. Office', so presumably the 'office' copy.

Some annotations.

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Bas.4

Maker

Barr and Stroud

Title

The Works of Messrs. Barr & Stroud

Description

An account of the factory buildings, manufacturing and management practises at Barr and Stroud’s works

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Hil.719

Maker

Hilger & Watts Ltd.

Title

Notebook with test results for several components

Description

Green notebook.

Includes: 57 numbered slips of light blue paper, and 43 numbered slips of white paper (all of them dated and signed - dates range from 25/03/1953 to 09/01/1956).

They seem to be some kind of order/receipt slips.

Also includes 9 loose pages with calculations, lists and graphs.

Only 7 pages are written in the notebook, the remaining pages are all blank.

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Csi.C732

Maker

Cambridge Instrument Company

Title

Cambridge Gas Analyser for Respiratory Research by the Cambridge Instrument Company

Description

Item of sales literature bound within black hardback volume: ‘CAMBRIDGE INSTRUMENT CO. CATALOGUES 696-858’

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you.195

Maker

E. R. Watts & Son Ltd.

Title

Dodging the Cut - With Dodg’em Car

Description

Article in London’s ‘The Evening News’ about Mr. A. H. Compton’s initiative to borrow a generator from a fairground to power the factory as power cuts occurred during World War II. Attached is a picture of a bicycle-powered lathe.
Donated by Ian Young, descendant of Robert Whipple, in 2013.

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Keu.2

Maker

Keuffel & Esser Co.

Title

Slide Rules & Calculating Instruments.

Description

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Tow.1

Maker

Towson & Mercer

Title

The New Jena Glass Laboratory Requisites.

Description

Includes details of the properties of the Jena glass.

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Rei.2.17

Maker

C. Reichert

Title

Reichert Small Brinell Microscopes

Description