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[[File:Du-Bois-Reymond type induction coil.jpg|thumb|du Bois-Reymond sledge coils, for physiological use, 1920-1940, made by C F Palmer Science Museum collection<ref>Creative Commons License. This image is released under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Licence</ref> ]] | [[File:Du-Bois-Reymond type induction coil.jpg|thumb|du Bois-Reymond sledge coils, for physiological use, 1920-1940, made by C F Palmer Science Museum collection<ref>Creative Commons License. This image is released under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Licence</ref> ]] | ||
C. F. Palmer | C. F. Palmer Ltd was a manufacturer of scientific instruments, mostly in the field of physiology. | ||
1891 The company was founded in | 1891 The company was founded in Brixton by [[Charles Fielding Palmer]]. It described itself as a maker of "Research and Students' Apparatus for Physiology, Pharmacology, Psychology, Bacteriology, Phonetics, Botany, etc." It specialized in equipment for the relatively new science of physiology. | ||
Early customers included the hospital of St Thomas's in London. | Early customers included the hospital of St Thomas's in London. | ||
Revision as of 18:35, 3 October 2024
C. F. Palmer Ltd was a manufacturer of scientific instruments, mostly in the field of physiology.
1891 The company was founded in Brixton by Charles Fielding Palmer. It described itself as a maker of "Research and Students' Apparatus for Physiology, Pharmacology, Psychology, Bacteriology, Phonetics, Botany, etc." It specialized in equipment for the relatively new science of physiology.
Early customers included the hospital of St Thomas's in London.
As a result of good workmanship and excellent contacts with scientists, the company became an important supplier of physiology research equipment in the British Empire until ca. 1950.
Palmer manufactured instruments such as the kymograph, invented by the German physiologist Carl Ludwig in 1847, the Stromuhr (another design by Ludwig) for measuring the rate of bloodflow and a 'dotting machine', designed by William McDougall to measure and record levels of fatigue.
From the 1930s onward, the company catalogue also mentioned equipment for research in psychometrics.
1961 Engineers Instrument makers - light mechanical engineers and improvers required. — C. F. Palmer. Ltd. 63a Effra-rd., Brixton, S.W.2.[5]
1964 Derbyshire Stone acquired C. F. Palmer (London) Ltd, of Brixton, specialists in the field of research and students' apparatus for physiology, pharmacology and psychology[6]
By 1966 was a member of the Baird and Tatlock group[7]
1969 Baird and Tatlock was sold to G. D. Searle and Co of the U.S.A.
1960s-70s C. F. Palmer was mostly making electromechanical devices in an increasingly electronic age. so it lost some of its importance as an instrument maker.
1976 SEARLE BioScience, incorporating G. Washington Ltd and C F PALMER (LONDON), of Harbour Estate, Sheerness, Kent.[8]
1976 C. F. Palmer (London) Ltd, of Lane End, High Wycombe, was wound up voluntarily[9]
Renamed PalmerBioscience.
1987 The company was acquired by Harvard Apparatus.
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- ↑ Creative Commons License. This image is released under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Licence
- ↑ Creative Commons License. This image is released under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Licence
- ↑ Creative Commons License. This image is released under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Licence
- ↑ Creative Commons License. This image is released under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Licence
- ↑ South London Observer 20 July 1961
- ↑ The Times Sept. 30, 1964
- ↑ The Times Feb. 18, 1966
- ↑ Faversham News 17 December 1976
- ↑ The London Gazette 7 January 1977
- [1] Wikipedia
- "A short history of C. F. Palmer (London) Ltd., physiological instrument maker" by A. H. Sykes, Journal of Medical Biography, 1995, 3, 225-231.