Recorder, data
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- OBJECT TYPE
- analog/chart
- DATE
- 1945
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 2000.0121.002
- MANUFACTURER
- Leeds & Northrup Co.
- MODEL
- SPEEDOMAX/A
- LOCATION
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- 668631
- Part Number
- 2
- Total Parts
- 2
- AKA
- Chart recorder and power supply
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- METAL CASINGS & RACK; SYNTHETIC PARTS; GLASS WINDOW; PAPER CHART
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- N/A
- Width
- N/A
- Height
- N/A
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Astronomy
- Category
- Research
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Leeds Northrup
- Country
- United States of America
- State/Province
- Pennsylvania
- City
- Philadelphia
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- Period
- CA. 1945 +
- Canada
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INSTRUMENT USED IN HIS SPECTROSCOPY LAB BY DISTINGUISHED BRITISH-CANADIAN PHYSICIST DR. R.W. NICHOLLS, ACQUIRED AFTER HIS MOVE FROM UNIV. OF LONDON TO UNIV. OF WESTERN ONTARIO IN 1948, & THEN MOVED TO YORK UNIVERSITY WHEN HE TRANSFERRED THERE TO HEAD NEW PHYSICS DEPT. IN 1965. - Function
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Unknown - Technical
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EXAMPLE OF COMMERCIALLY MADE RESEARCH GRADE SPECTROSCOPY INSTRUMENT OF 1940'S. L&N MICRODENSITOMETER WAS USED BY MANY STUDENTS INCLUDING PHD STUDENTS DON MACEWEN (PROF. EMERITUS AT UNIV. OF SASKATCHEWAN) & WALT DEWLEY (NOW AT UNIV. OF WATERLOO). - Area Notes
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Unknown
Details
- Markings
- METALLIC LETTERING ON METAL PANEL ON RECORDER DOOR READS "SPEEDOMAX/ T.M. REG. U.S. PAT. OFF. TYPE A/ LEEDS & NORTHRUP CO./ PHILADELPHIA MADE IN U.S.A."; RED "R249" PAINTED ON DOOR; INTERIOR PLATE READS "SPEEDOMAX/ SERIAL NO.668631/ LICENSED UNDER THE FOLLOWING U.S. PATENTS/ 1820212 2162469"
- Missing
- N/A
- Finish
- BLACK PAINTED RACK & CASINGS; METALLIC DOOR HANDLES & PARTS; COLOURLESS TRANSPARENT WINDOW; WHITE PAPER; BLACK POWER CORD
- Decoration
- BLACK & METALLIC STRIPED METAL PANELS ABOVE & BELOW WINDOW
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Leeds & Northrup Co., Recorder, data, circa 1945, Artifact no. 2000.0121, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingenium.ca/en/item/2000.0121.002/
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