Accession No

4396

Brief Description

Framed photograph showing Cambridge Instrument Co. worker fitting ligaments to a reflecting wattmeter, originally composed for the front cover of Engineering magazine, English, c. 1962

Origin

London; England

Maker

Nurnberg. Walter

Class

ephemera; prints

Earliest Date

1962

Latest Date

1962

Inscription Date

Material

photographic paper; card; wood

Dimensions

height 524mm; breadth 423mm

Special Collection

Cambridge Instrument Company Collection

Provenance

Donated by the Cambridge Instrument Company.

Inscription

‘FITTING LIGAMENTS TO
REFLECTING WATTMETER
MUSWELL HILL WORKS’ (LHS bottom of photo)
‘Photograph by WALTER NURNBERG
for the front cover of
‘ENGINEERING’’ (paper label to bottom RHS of print)

Description Notes

Framed photograph showing Cambridge Instrument Co. worker fitting ligaments to a reflecting wattmeter, originally composed for the front cover of Engineering magazine, English, c. 1962.

Black and white photograph showing a Cambridge Instrument Company employee at work, fitting ligaments to a reflecting wattmeter.
Mounted and framed, glass missing.

Condition fair; incomplete (glass missing)

References

Events

Description
R.S. Whipple’s interest in historic scientific artefacts stemmed from his day job making instruments in Cambridge.

Whipple joined the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company in 1898, rapidly rising to become its Managing Director in 1905 and ultimately its Chairman in 1938. Over this period, Whipple helped grow the firm from a small specialist maker into an international company with thousands of employees and a world-class reputation in a wide variety of areas.

This photograph taken for the front cover of Engineering magazine shows a Cambridge Instrument Company employee fitting ligaments to a reflecting wattmeter.

17/10/2025
Created by: Hannah Price on 17/10/2025

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