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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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Clapp-Eastham high potential condenser
circa 1915
needle force gauge
after 1954
Super 510 8mm instant movie projector
circa 1965
electrical stand base
1897-1930
optics for Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope
circa 1943

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Harvard Apparatus Company

1901-present
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Cruft Laboratory, Harvard University

founded 1914
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H. Sumner

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ACME Apparatus Company

founded 1920
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Henry Bradford Washburn, Jr.

1910 - 2007

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