- Item type
- Object
- Provenance
- Transferred from the Department of Crystallography, Oxford, per Professor Keith Prout. Likely to have been used by Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin in the late 1930s / early 1940s as part of her Nobel Prize winning research.
- Primary inscriptions
- "S" plaque on lid.
- Dimensions
- Height: 204mm Width: 403mm Depth: 178mm Weight: 6000g
- Inventory No
- 46492
- Accession Number
- 2003-6/2
Description
A set of Sine Beevers-Lipson Strips in a wooden case. The case has a removable lid with one of the longer sides hinged to a thin piece of wood. The case has two clasp fastenings and a leather handle. The thin card Beevers-Lipson Strips are housed inside the box, printed with numbers. Along with a case of Cosine Beevers-Lipson Strips (inv. 45229), these would have helped with the calculations of crystal structures before modern computing.
