Portfolio Category: Measurement and Instrumentation

Frederick Edwards CBE (1889-1966)

Academic and industrialist and pioneer of high vacuum technology. The company he founded, Edwards Vacuum,…

Robert Hooke (1635-1703)

In 1660 Hooke discovered the law of elasticity which bears his name in the course…

Ludwik Finkelstein OBE FREng (1929-2011)

Engineer, scientist and educationist who became a world authority on measurement and a founder of…