Accession No

1365

Brief Description

Glass negatives in wooden box

Origin

Cambridge; England

Maker

Class

optical

Earliest Date

1882

Latest Date

1890

Inscription Date

Material

wood; metal; brass; glass

Dimensions

box length 240 mm; height 184mm; breadth 176mm

Special Collection

Provenance

Inscription

‘Negatives of Figures
in
the Cavendish
papers’ (paper label on lid of box)
‘W.W.ROUGH & CO
180 STRAND
LONDON’ (engaved onto inside of lid)

Description Notes

Fitted wooden box containing eleven glass negatives (one blank, eight with long-hand notes and diagrams, one photogrph of electrical experiment including induction coil, one showing various absorption spectra (dated July 2nd 1882)).

Condition good

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