Records of Kelvin & Hughes Ltd, scientific instrument makers, Glasgow, Scotland, and London, England 1876-1961

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Records of Kelvin & Hughes Ltd, scientific instrument makers, Glasgow, Scotland, and London, England 1876-1961

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SNAC Resource ID: 6296704

Glasgow University Archive Service

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Kelvin & Hughes Ltd (scientific instrument manufacturers: 1947-1966: Glasgow, Scotland and London, England)

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In 1947 , the scientific instrument manufacturing firms of Henry Hughes & Son Ltd , London, England, and Kelvin Bottomley & Baird Ltd , Glasgow, Scotland, came together to form Kelvin & Hughes Ltd . The origins of the company lie in the highly successful, if strictly informal, relationship between William Thomson ( 1824-1907 ), Professor of Natural Philosophy at Glasgow University from 1846-1899 and James White, a Glasgow optical maker. James White ( 1824-188...

Kelvin Bottomley & Baird Ltd 1913-1947

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Thomson William 1824-1907 Baron Kelvin physicist

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James White 1860-1900

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Kelvin & Hughes Ltd 1947-1966

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Kelvin & James White Ltd

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