Vickers Instruments Ltd.

Example Artifact

Company

Toronto, ON

1964-01-01

1987-01-01

23 Railside Road, Toronto, ON (1964)

Scientific

Optical

Manufacturing

Designing

Important

Subsidiary/branch of: Vickers Instruments (York, Yorkshire, UK)

- 1964 – Active at 23 Railside Road, Toronto, ON. (Fraser’s Canadian Trade Directory (1964))

- 1987 – Active, developing “Channel Electron Multiplier Array for Scintillating Fiber Readout”; granted a patent for “Apparatus for automatically controlling the magnification factor of a scanning electron microscope” among other things. (“Channel Electron Multiplier Array for Scintillating Fiber Readout”; “Patents Assigned to Vickers Instruments (Canada) Inc.”)

Pinfold, J.L., Bouchard, C. “Channel Electron Multiplier Arras for Scintillating Fiber Readout” Nuclear Instrument Methods A 257 (1987): 607–608.

Fraser’s Canadian Trade Directory (1964): 776.

“Patents Assigned to Vickers Instruments (Canada) Inc.” Justia Patents. (https://patents.justia.com/assignee/vickers-instruments-canada-inc) [28-10-24]

“Vickers Instruments Limited” Science Museum Group Collection. (https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/people/cp60883/vickers-instruments-limited) [28-10-24]