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Located on rivers Cam & Granta; site of prehistoric & Roman remains; oldest college is Peterhouse (founded 1284); was confirmed a university city by Pope John XXII 1384; visited by Erasmus 1510; site of Holy Sepulchre Church, famed for its circular plan.

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linear expansion apparatus
1920-1926
fluxmeter
1925-1930
viscosity tester
1920-1928
poster on Ernest Rutherford's work at Canterbury College
1990
poster on Ernest Rutherford's work at Manchester
1990

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Cambridge Instrument Company, Ltd.

1924 - 1968
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Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company

1881 - 1920
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Whipple Museum of the History of Science

founded 1944
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W.G. Pye & Company, Ltd.

1896 - 1928
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Sir Herbert Butterfield

1900 - 1979

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