Trade catalogues. 1. Appendix to the Descriptive list of instruments; 2. Physiological instruments; 3. A descriptive list of instruments
Published by Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company, Cambridge, 1899
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All with numerous text illustrations. Original printed wrappers. 1. The company’s new apparatus and designs for instruments in physics and biology. 2. Sections include recording cylincers, myographs, motors; supports for apparatus; time markers; nerve and muscle; electric; blood circulation; spectroscopes and blood analysis; microtomes and microscope accessories; surgical and various apparatus; botany; and anthropometric and models. 3. Preface by Horace Darwin. With 28 sections, including measurement of length, time, heat, optics, sound, magnetic, meteorological, histology, respiration, nerve and models, as well as those set forth in No. 2 above, plus others. Horace Darwin (1851-1928) was the fifth son and ninth child of Charles and Emma Darwin. In 1881 he co-founded the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company with Albert George Dew-Smith (1848-1903), a British physiologist and photographer. Darwin led the company when the partnership ended in 1891. He was Mayor of Cambridge between 1896 and 1897, became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1903 and was knighted in 1918.…
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- Title
- Trade catalogues. 1. Appendix to the Descriptive list of instruments; 2. Physiological instruments; 3. A descriptive list of instruments
- Author
- CAMBRIDGE SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENT COMPANY
- Publisher
- Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company, Cambridge
- Publication year
- 1899
B & L Rootenberg Rare Books, ABAA
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