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International Optical Congress - Programme
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programme
British Optical Association; George Falkner & Sons
Europe: United Kingdom, England, Cambridgeshire, Cambridge
September 1930
paper; card
overall: 219 mm x 144 mm

Programme for an international optical congress and conference held at Trinity College, Cambridge, sponsored by the BOA. Small portrait format printed in black on 56 pages, stapled, with soft end papers, the front cover including a black and red drawing of the Great Court at Trinity. Includes article on the international aspect of optics, the British Optical organisations (BOA, WCSM, JCQO, IOO, NCPE, AWMO, the British Optical Press (Optician, Dioptric Review, The Refractionist, BJPO), Personalia - The Congress Arrangements' Committee ((John Harwood, Bill Braker, J. H. Sutcliffe, George Milner), the conference town, the home of the Congress - Trinity College, acknowledgements, general information, daily programme. Also advertisements for: Lever Brothers, ('Kostules'), Raphael's Limited (synoptiscope), NCPE, Carl Zeiss (London) Ltd, Wheway Optical Co. Ltd, General Optical Co., The Lancashire Optical Manufacturing Co. Ltd ('Ardley' frames), Kryptok Limited, J & R Fleming Ltd ('Highway' side), Harris's Optical Works, P. Oliver Goldsmith (tortoise-shell frames and repairs), Manchester Municipal College of Technology (Applied Optics course), Chance Brothers & Co. Limited (Chance's Crookes Glass), Northampton Polytechnic Institute (Applied Optics department), Gowllands Limited, Elliott Optical Company Ltd (synoptophore), Nitsche & Gunther Optical Co (1927) Ltd, London Optical Company (Linfield Kerascope), Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. (Stereo Campimeter), Geo. W. Thompson Limited (modern test room equipment), T. Aston Limited ('Aztone' stainless steel case), Smith & Ancill Ltd (distinctive tortoiseshell spectacle wear), London Refraction Hospital, Institute of Ophthalmic Opticians, The Hadley Co. Ltd, Willmotts Limited, C. A. Scurr (examination tuition). Also a separately printed List of Visitors.


1998.397

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