Key Words :- museum

Address :- Free School Lane, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB2 3RH
Grid Ref :- TL 44938 58190
Co-ordinates :- Lat 52.202888 , Long 0.119484
Local Authority :- Cambridge City Council
Pre 1974 County :- Cambridgeshire
Site Status :- Site extant - No Protection

Description and History of Site:-
Founded in 1944 when Robert Stewart Whipple presented his collection of scientific instruments to the University of Cambridge. The collection includes scientific instruments, apparatus, models, pictures, prints, photographs, books and other material related to the history of science.

Whipple spent most of his career at the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company (qv), eventually rising to become its managing director and chairman.

The company was founded in 1881 by engineer Horace Darwin and physiologist and businessman Albert Dew-Smith. By the mid-20th century it had grown to employ several thousand people in Cambridge, London, and New York. Whipple oversaw the expansion of the firm from a specialist shop supplying apparatus to university laboratories to an international supplier of diverse equipment for research, industry, education, and healthcare.

Further Reading and References:-
Balchin, Nigel and Filby, Peter. 'A Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of Cambridgeshire & Peterborough'. AIA, 2001

https://www.whipplemuseum.cam.ac.uk/

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