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Helmholtz glass slides, 1850 - 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0279/CPS 10/3/8

Scope and Contents

Small box labelled ‘Gelatine-Emulsionsplatten, J Gädicke, Berlin’, containing six glass slides relating to Hermann von Helmholtz [1821-94, German physician and physicist], being images of him and his scientific equipment. [Presumed to have been used to illustrate a Cambridge Philosophical Society lecture or article?]
The slides are numbered 1-6 and the box contains a handwritten list:
1. Helmholtz 27 years old;
2. Helmholtz 73 years old [from a pastel drawing by Leubach, 1894];
3. Helmholtz aged 70, lecturing, photographed by Mr Man (there is a crack across the slide);
4. Fallpendel für Zeiterinnerung;
5. Vibrationsmikroskop und Opthalmometer;
6. Doppelsirene Zur Erzeugung von Differenz in Summations Tönen und Teile des Vocalapparats.






Dates

  • Creation: 1850 - 1890

Extent

6 item(s) (6 items in box) : photograph

Language of Materials

English

Date information

DateText: No dates found but presumed to be circa 1850 to circa 1890.

Originator(s)

Unknown

Finding aid date

2015-05-18 08:35:17+00:00

Repository Details

Part of the Cambridge Philosophical Society Repository

Contact:
CPS Archivist, Joan Bullock-Anderson
c/o Sedgwick Museum Archives, A G Brighton Building
Madingley Rise
Cambridge CB3 0UD