Accession No

3370

Brief Description

Dees from the Cambridge cyclotron, lead design by John Cockcroft, manufactured by Metropolitan Vickers, English, 1936-1938

Origin

England; Manchester [engineering]; Cambridge [constructed and used]

Maker

Metropolitan-Vickers [makers / engineers] John Cockcroft [lead designer]

Accession No

4660

Brief Description

Botanical wallchart, with line drawings of mucilage cells on ramenta of Blechnum brasiliense.

Origin

Cambridge

Maker

Shrubbs, Arthur

Accession No

4662

Brief Description

botanical wallchart, depicting wound-cork and leaf fall in three species (Robinia Pseudacacia, Ampelopsis quinqefolia, and Vanilla planifolia), by Paul Parey, W. A. Weyn, Frank, and Tschirch, German, c. 1850-1967

Origin

Germany; Berlin

Maker

Parey, Paul [publisher] Meyn, W. A. [lithographer] Frank [artist] Tschirch [artist]

Accession No

1642

Brief Description

cosmographical print, ‘Synopsis Scientiae Celestis or THE KNOWLEDGE of the HEAVENS of the EARTH’, by Benjamin Martin, English, 1743

Origin

England

Maker

Martin, Benjamin

Accession No

6616.6

Brief Description

‘Things of Science’ educational kit (Fossils, #274), by Science Service and repackaged by Advisory Centre for Education, English, c. 1963

Origin

Cambridge, England

Maker

Advisory Centre for Education

Accession No

3673

Brief Description

swinging-plate anemometer, Dickinson's type, by Casartelli, English, 1875-1900

Origin

England; Manchester

Maker

Casartelli

Accession No

2893

Brief Description

pair of 12-inch globes (celestial and terrestrial), by Newton and Son, English, 1851 (c)

Origin

England; London; 66 Chancery Lane

Maker

Newton and Son

Accession No

3665

Brief Description

mercury-in-glass thermometer, by J. and H. J. Green, U.S.A., 1850 (c)

Origin

U.S.A.; New York

Maker

J. and H. J. Green

Accession No

1628

Brief Description

illuminated magnifier, by Beck, English, 1929

Origin

England; London

Maker

Beck

Accession No

6351

Brief Description

zoological teaching diagram depicting cyanea, English, early 20th Century

Origin

England; Cambridge; University of Cambridge; Department of Zoology

Maker

unknown