Cambridge Scientific Instrument

Cambridge Scientific Instruments Ltd, 12-15 Sedgeway Business Park, Ely,... 

Figure 12.4. Horace Darwin s Patent Thread Recorder (from Technical Thermometry., The Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company, List No. 39 (Cambridge 1906)).

Very accurate instruments of types (a) and (b) for both scientific and technical purposes are made and sold by the Scientific Instrument Company, Cambridge, England. 

W. D. Hackmann, Scientific Instruments Models of Brass and Aids to Discovery, in The Uses of Experiment, ed. D. Gooding et al. (Cambridge University Press, 1989)... 

Parts of this paper have been presented and discussed with colleagues at the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Chicago, and Yale University. See my essays Laboratory Practice and the Physical Chemistry of Michael Polanyi, in F. L. Holmes and Trevor Levere, eds, Instruments and Experimentation in the History of Chemistry (Cambridge, MA. MIT Press, 2000), 367-400 and Michael Polanyi s Theory of Adsorption How Premature in Ernest Hook, ed., Prematurity in Scientific Discovery (Berkeley University of California Press, in press). 

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