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S. C. Tisley & Company

fl. 1870 - 1880

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S. C. Tisley & Company were electrical instrument makers.

The firm of Tisley and Spiller (later S.C. Tisley and Co.) manufactured scientific instruments in London in the 1870s and 1880s, seeking to capitalize on the expansion of science education in England after 1871.
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"J.A. Berly's British, American and Continental Electrical Directory and Advertiser," Wm. Dawson & Sons, 1883, accessed via Google Books, http://books.google.com/books?id=OQkAAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA263 (accessed 06/25/2015)

"Optics," Historical Scientific Instruments, Physics Department, Indiana University, http://physics.indiana.edu/~meyer1/historinstr/optics.html (accessed 06/25/2015)

Catalogue of Electrical Apparatus, &c.

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