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Located on Charles River; famed for 17th-cen. universities & religious congregations; first Massachusetts Constitutional Convention met here 1779-1780; famous natives include authors Longfellow & Oliver Wendell Holmes, & religious leader Mary Baker Eddy.

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ballistic pendulum
circa 1980
tripod for surveyor's compass
circa 1830
binocular microscope "star counting" machine
circa 1930
flint glass specimen jar that belonged to Louis Agassiz
1864-1866
instrument rack for nuclear physics experiments
circa 1980

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ACME Apparatus Company

founded 1920
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Henry Bradford Washburn, Jr.

1910 - 2007
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Cambridge Pattern Works

founded 1936
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Janszen Laboratory Inc.

1954 - 1959
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Hendricks & Harvey

1932 - 1933

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