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Located on Charles River; famed for 17th-cen. universities & religious congregations; first Massachusetts Constitutional Convention met here 1779-1780; famous natives include authors Longfellow & Oliver Wendell Holmes, & religious leader Mary Baker Eddy.

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set of experimental data and presentation slides
1940-1960
sign for the cyclotron laboratory
1950-1980
Polaroid instant camera, Swinger
1965-1970
Coulter counter
1961-1970
Polariod instant camera, Super Swinger
1970-1980

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Otto Von der Hyde

born c. 1901
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Harvard Cyclotron Laboratory

1937 - 2002
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Olmsted Flint Company

founded 1910

Percy Williams Bridgman

1882 - 1961
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Elliot Hammerman

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