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Description: | In addition to the Robert Whipple Collection there are many instruments from Colleges and Departments of the University of Cambridge including Cavendish Laboratory Collection of 19th and early 20th century of optical instruments, electrical instruments, X-ray tubes and vacuum tubes, and thermometers. Through the Laboratory also came WH Wollaston collection of early 19th-century apparatus presented by H W Elphinstone in 1876, and the Hutchinson collection of slide rules presented by Professor A R Hutchinson in 1939. The Fitzwilliam Museum Collection is a long-term loan from 1973 of material relating to the history of science including various sundials and a geomantic compass. The Charles Holden-White Collection was given to the Fitzwilliam in 1935 and also includes 100 sundials, astrolabes, nocturnals, quadrants and perpetual calendars. The Heywood Collection was purchased from the estate of Professor Harold Heywood of Loughborough and includes microscopes from late 17th to late 19th century and microscope accessories, drawing instruments, telescopes, optical instruments and an orrery. St John's College Collection, built in 1765 and closed 1859, is of astronomical instruments from the college Observatory loaned in 1951. Trinity College Collection is of calculating, drawing and observing instruments from Trinity College, mainly 17th and 18th centuries. Most was the original equipment of the Trinity College Observatory, the first official astronomical observatory in Cambridge and was built for the use of the Plumian Professor. Cambridge Instrument Company Collection donated when the company closed in 1974. Whipple was the founder and managing director of the Company. Collection of instruments made by the Company from the end of the 19th century until the 1960s. There are some important prototype items, and an archive. Francis Hookham Collection of Handheld Calculators given by Francis Hookham in 1987 and has 400 models of electronic calculators produced in the 1970s and 1980s. Plant Sciences Collection is 1,000 botanical teaching diagrams were transferred to from the Department of Plant Sciences in 1996, and had been used for teaching since 1800; earliest examples include items by John Henslow. J H Steward Collection, purchased in 1973 from the Steward family includes items produced by the firm of J H Steward from the latter part of the 19th century and the early years of the 20th century, is particularly strong in drawing instruments, calculating instruments and military instruments. | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | 01223 334554 | Telephone: | 01223 330906 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:6707 | Go to resource |
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