Accession No

3714

Brief Description

2 boxes of Beevers-Lipson strips for crystallographic calculations, Scottish, 1936

Origin

Edinburgh; Scotland

Maker

Class

crystallography; calculating

Earliest Date

1936

Latest Date

1936

Inscription Date

1936

Material

wood; metal (brass, copper, 2 white metal); paper (card, 1 other); plastic (ivorine)

Dimensions

each box length 415mm; breadth 185mm; height 220mm

Special Collection

Provenance

Transferred from Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, 03/09/1988.

Inscription

Description Notes

2 wooden boxes sloping inwards towards their base each with removable lid held in place by hook fasteners and with strip of copper inside. Box divided into 31 compartments with white metal dividers. Each compartment contains a series of thin paper strips printed with numbers. Lids with leather carrying handles and ivorine plaques, one marked ‘C’, the other ‘S’. Box marked ‘C’ also has paper label from the Astronomy Library reading ‘Lipson-Beevers strips for Fourier transformation, Edinburgh 1936’

Condition good; complete

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