crystals in cardboard boxes
Date1929-1947
Inventory Number2004-1-0441
ClassificationCrystals
Subject
Maker
American
User
Kenneth T. Bainbridge
1904 - 1996
User
Department of Physics, Harvard University
founded 1884
Cultural Region
Place of Origin
Dimensionseach box: 1.3 x 3.2 x 3.2 cm (1/2 x 1 1/4 x 1 1/4 in.)
Material
DescriptionFour square cardboard boxes containing small samples of crystals. The sides of the boxes are of different colors: two blue, one brown, another pale green. One blue box contains celestite, the second blue box contains gypsum, the brown box contains topaz, and the green box contains fluoride crystals. Boxes originally contained medicines.
Signedunsigned
Inscribedwritten on one blue box: Celestite / Slightly worse / than qtz but / strong as far as / it goes.; written on second blue box: Gpysum / A little worse than / qtz.
written on brown box: Topaz White / About Like qtz / but feeble / intensity / 3+4 not so good / Utah (U) opaque; written on green box: Fl. / 4 green 2 pink / bits opaque. / Heated to loss of / color Still opaque!
printed on box labels: Billings & Stover / APOTHECARIES / 1360 Massachusetts Ave, Harvard Sq. / CAMBRIDGE, MASS.
Curatorial RemarksFor information concerning the life and work of Kenneth Bainbridge, see Bainbridge "People" file in the CHSI library. See also Bainbridge, Kenneth T. (Kenneth Tompkins), 1904-1996. Papers of Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge: an inventory, Harvard University Archives, available at <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.ARCH:hua23003" target="_blank">website</a>. This collection documents Bainbridge's professional activities from 1904-1996 and contains biographical materials, correspondence, research and teaching materials, awards, photographs, and newspaper articles.
FunctionCrystals of celestite, gypsum, topaz, and fluoride to be used with Bainbridge mass spectrometer. For more information on this type of instrument, go to the following website.
ProvenanceFrom the Department of Physics, Harvard University.
George Gilbert Rakestraw
Date: circa 1890
Accessories: none
Object number: 2004-1-0325b
Percy Williams Bridgman
Date: circa 1925
Accessories: wooden shipping crate
Object number: 1998-1-1311
Percy Williams Bridgman
Date: 1928-1957
Accessories: two small rectangular cardboard boxes
three small round cardboard boxes
one large round cardboard box
Object number: 1999-1-0045b
Percy Williams Bridgman
Date: dated 1931
Accessories: wooden shipping crate
Object number: 1998-1-1340
Friez Instrument Division, Bendix Aviation Corporation
Date: circa 1956
Accessories: one used Taylor Instrument Companies paper chart and cardboard box; recording charts, Air Ministry, Meteorological Office, Form 4213, Barogram (18); one used "Self Recording Thermometer" chart. Richard Brothers Manu. PS Paris. "Blue-hill Meteorological Observatory"; one set of "Instructions for the Installation of Charts", Bendix Aviation Corporation, Friez Instrument Division, Baltimore 4, Maryland; Friez I.B. No. 165/Friez Part No. 509673-B
Object number: 1996-1-0190b
Frederick Vinton Hunt
Date: circa 1960
Accessories: box
Object number: 1997-1-1150
Percy Williams Bridgman
Date: circa 1925
Accessories: wooden shipping crate
Object number: 1998-1-1312
Chemistry Laboratory, Harvard College
Date: circa 1900
Accessories: pine box with sliding glass cover
Object number: 3721
Percy Williams Bridgman
Date: dated 1927
Accessories: wooden test tube holder
Object number: 1998-1-0060e
Percy Williams Bridgman
Date: dated 1927
Accessories: wooden test tube holder
Object number: 1998-1-0060f
Établissement Géographique de Bruxelles
Date: 1830-1862
Object number: 1998-1-1445
Wilhelm Friedrich Lingke
Date: 1900-1930
Accessories: scissors, paper, cupel holder, form for paper cylinders, pliers, cupel moulds, charcoal accessories, brass mould and stamp for clay crucibles, crucibles, and more
Object number: 1997-1-1734