Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company
Cambridge (1881)

Cambridge Instrument Co. Ltd.
Cambridge (1924)
13 Grosvenor Place, London, S.W.1 (1965)
(From "Electronic Engineering" volume 37, year 1965)

Development of industrial measurement and medical instrumentation.

Founded in 1881 by Horace Darwin and Albert George Dew-Smith in Cambridge. Takeover by George Kent Ltd. in 1968. Horace Darwin, youngest son of Charles Darwin, was first apprenticed to an engineering firm in Kent, and returned to Cambridge in 1875. Dew-Smith was an engineer and instrument maker who was at Trinity College, Cambridge with Darwin. Their partnership became a Limited Liability Company in 1895. In 1920 it took over the R.W. Paul Instrument Company of London, and became The Cambridge and Paul Instrument Company Ltd. The name was shortened to the Cambridge Instrument Company Ltd. in 1924 when it was converted to a Public limited company.