The Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company from 1881 to 1968

The author, a past employee of the company, traces its early history from the time, in 1878, when Robert Fulcher and Albert George Dew-Smith began making instruments commercially in Professor Stuart´s departmental workshop at Cambridge University. The company´s name originated in 1881 when Horace Darwin entered into partnership with Dew-Smith, Darwin, who subsequently became sole owner, was regarded as a father figure by the firm´s employees. Reference is made to a number of the innovative instruments for which the company became world renowned. The narrative concludes with the takeover of the company by the George Kent Group in 1968.