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Precision Measuring Instrument With Case, by Cambridge Scientific Company, Cambridge, Mid 20th Century
Inventory Number: 53614
Number of documents: 1
Document Type: Miscellaneous Note
Document Heading: Manufacturer Details - Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company
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The Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company was first founded in 1878 by Albert Dew-Smith and Robert Fulcher. Due to lack of engineering expertise, this company was unsuccessful and was dissolved. In 1881, the company was re-founded under the same name but under the control of Dew-Smith and Charles Darwin's youngest son, Horace Darwin; in 1891, Darwin assumed sole control of the company and went on to remarkable success. In December 1919, the company took over the smaller but successful Robert W. Paul Instrument Company of London and became The Cambridge and Paul Instrument Company Ltd. The name was shortened to the Cambridge Instrument Co Ltd in 1924 when it was converted to a public company. From 1934 to 1967, the company merged with various other scientific instrument companies, and in 1967, it split into two separate companies: Cambridge Scientific Instruments Ltd and Cambridge Industrial Instruments. In 1974, it changed its name to Scientific and Medical Instruments Ltd, but in 1979 it reverted to its previous name of Cambridge Instrument Co Ltd.
Some instruments made by this company have the Cambridge Scientific Co. Ltd. trademark, consisting of an electrical bridge with a cam inscribed in the centre. This trademark was suggested by Horace Darwin in February 1919 and was registered worldwide.
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