Scientific equipment
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Fonds
Cambridge Svalbard Exploration Collection
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/590/CSEC
Scope and Contents
The Svalbard Archive collection contains accounting records, administration files, expedition notes, and equipment records which all relate to work undertaken in Svalbard (Spitsbergen) from 1949 until 1992. Much of this material includes far more information than has been previously published about the expeditions or the work undertaken.Most of the expedition records are organized on the twinlock system – and include administrative papers, logs of each party, bulletins, accounts,...
Dates:
1933-2000
Conditions Governing Access:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.
The Collections Research Centre [West Cambridge] is open from Monday to Friday, 10:00-13:00 and 14:00-17:00.
A prior appointment made at least two weeks in advance, and two forms of identification are required.
Found in:
Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences
Series
Cavendish Laboratory equipment records, 1924 - 1939
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CKFT 31
Scope and Contents
This series includes photographs, publicity brochures and correspondence in relation to equipment used at the Cavendish laboratory, Cambridge.
Dates:
1924 - 1939
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Item
Copy of a letter from the Earl of Sandwich to the Master General of the Ordinance, 1765-03-05 - 1765-03-06
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 218/3/11
Scope and Contents
Authorising the replacement or repair of defective instruments at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich.
Dates:
1765-03-05 - 1765-03-06
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Series
Equipment (EQ), 1958-1991
Series
Reference Code: GBR/590/CSEC/03
Scope and Contents
This series includes published pamphlets about equipment purchased; equipment manuals, inventories and instructions; correspondence on condition of equipment and details of problems; reports on the boats [Salterella,Collenia]. Also including photographs and sketches/plans of the boats.
Dates:
1958-1991
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.
The Collections Research Centre [West Cambridge] is open from Monday to Friday, 10:00-13:00 and 14:00-17:00.
A prior appointment made at least two weeks in advance, and two forms of identification are required.
Series
Kew Observatory papers, 1829 - 1911
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 66
Scope and Contents
The bulk of RGO 66 comprises the incoming and copy correspondence of the chief assistant, later superintendant, George Mathews Whipple during 1871-5. Much of it is with the chemist and astronomer Warren De La Rue whose photoheliograph was moved to and used at Kew in the early 1870s. The correspondence is largely concerned with solar photographs and the practicalities of their production. There are a few financial papers and some records of solar and lunar observations made both at Kew and...
Dates:
1829 - 1911
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Item
Letter to George Biddell from George B. Airy, 17 January 1848
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10452/1/4
Scope and Contents
Describing an apparatus he wished to build, with drawings.
Dates:
17 January 1848
File
On the connexion between the rate of stimulation and the number of shocks needful to produce a reflex action, 190710
File
Reference Code: GBR/3377/JWard/1/17
Scope and Contents
This collection of notes includes a description of an experiment, a diagram as well as a photograph of some apparatus and a graph representing data. A scrap of data print-out included in this collection has the name 'H. Head' (Henry Head) written on the back with the date, October 1907. This suggests a connection with the experiment carried out by W. H. R. Rivers on Head's arm.
Dates:
190710