Accession No
6789
Brief Description
Abbe refractometer used by Andrew Huxley, by Hilger and Watts Ltd., English, 1948
Origin
England
Maker
Hilger and Watts Ltd.
Class
optical; laboratory apparatus
Earliest Date
1948
Latest Date
1948
Inscription Date
Material
wood; leather; metal; glass; paper; felt
Dimensions
[wooden case] width 229mm, depth 193mm, height 373mm; [refractometer] diamter 150mm, height 337mm
Special Collection
Andrew Huxley Collection
Provenance
Transferred from the Trinity College Library, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, in 03/2014. Donated by the family of Andrew Huxley to the Library of Trinity College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, in 2012.
Inscription
[Refractometer]
'HILGER
MADE IN ENGLAND
M.46 313
48856'
Description Notes
Abbe refractometer used by Andrew Huxley, by Hilger and Watts Ltd., English, 1948.
Wooden case with leather handle, one sticky label "REFRACTOMETER" stuck on top. The inner structure is partially laid with green felt. Two large cracks, one on the front door, and one on the back of the case. The case contains one black refractometer on a round base, a mercury thermometer incased in black protective metal, a paper box with cotton wool and a semitransparent block "n. 1.5165" inside, a glass bottle of 1-Bromonaphthalene, a small slotted head screwdriver, a card entitled "Dispersion Table for Abbe Refractometer, No.", and a broken brass lock.
References
Events
Description
Sir Andrew Huxley (1917-2012), FRS, was a British physiologist and biophysicist. After his undergraduate degree at Trinity College, Cambridge, he continued as a postgraduate under Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, working on neural science. The two, along with Eccles, were awarded the Nobel Prize of Physiology and Medicine in 1963 for their contribution to research on neural electrical signals.
A refractomer is a laboratory instrument used for determining the refractive index and the dispersion of liquids and solids.
14/04/2023
Created by: Guey-Mei Hsu on 14/04/2023
FM:47614
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