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Optical Instruments for Research Laboratories and Works

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IT is not given to all men to be able to invent a proverb, but whereas it has been truly said that ‘necessity is the mother of invention,’ it has been the good fortune of Messrs. Adam Hilger, Ltd., to make invention the mother of necessity. There can be few persons responsible for the equipment of a physical or spectroscopic laboratory who will not realise the necessity of some of the beautiful instruments which have originated in the Hilger workshops.

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M., L. Optical Instruments for Research Laboratories and Works. Nature 121, 1001–1002 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/1211001b0

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