Spectrophotometer, Cary 11
date: label: date made
content: 1947-1966
name: label: maker
content: Applied Physics Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: Henry Howard Cary (1908-1991) was a graduate of the California Institute of Technology who joined the National Technical Laboratories (later Beckman Instruments) in 1935, and made important contributions to the design of the D.U. spectrophotometer. In 1946, he and two colleagues established the Applied Physics Corporation, a firm that specialized in the design and manufacture of Cary spectrophotometers. Varian Associates bought Applied Physics in 1966, and renamed it Cary Instruments.
label: Description
content: The Cary 11, made by the Applied Physics Corporation, was the first commercial recording UV-VIS spectrophotometer. The first example was delivered to the Mellon Institute in Pittsburgh in April 1947. This example was used at the National Institutes of Health.
label: Description
content: Ref: Henry H. Cary, “Spectrophotometer,” U.S. Patent 3,022,704 (Feb. 27, 1962).
label: Description
content: Applied Physics Corp. ad in <i>Analytical Chemistry</i> 30 (Jan. 1958): 54A.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Monrovia
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Transfer from National Institutes of Health
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.1224.01
label: catalog number
content: 1979.1224.01
label: accession number
content: 1979.1224
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Recording Spectrophotometer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: aluminum (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 75 cm x 96.5 cm x 42.5 cm; 29 17/32 in x 38 in x 16 23/32 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 30 1/4 in x 37 in x 21 1/2 in; 76.835 cm x 93.98 cm x 54.61 cm