Accession No

2587

Brief Description

polarimeter, by Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company Ltd., English, 1925 (c)

Origin

England; Cambridge

Maker

Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company Ltd.

Class

optical

Earliest Date

1900

Latest Date

1919

Inscription Date

Material

metal (brass, copper)

Dimensions

first part length 265mm; breadth 258mm; height 235mm second part length 340mm; breadth 258mm; height 340mm tube length 422mm; breadth 90mm; diameter 64mm another part length 704mm; breadth 69mm; height 63mm another part length 515mm; breadth 65mm; height 73mm

Special Collection

Provenance

Transferred from the Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, 1978.

Inscription

‘CAMBRIDGE
SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENT COMPANY LIMITED’ (on eye end)

Description Notes

Lowry.TM’s ‘quartz column’. Two ends of a polarimeter, on separate bases with levelling screws, and one copper column. The rest brass. Eye end of polarimeter has covered graduated circle with 2 reading microscopes and telescope.

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