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Michell Instruments helps preserve ‘iconic’ artwork
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Michell Instruments has loaned two instruments to the National Needlework Archive (NNA) to help preserve an iconic mural. Designed by Constance Howard for the Festival of Britain in 1951 ‘The Country Wife’ is considered to be one of the 20th Century’s most important textile works. However, after nearly 60 years, the mural is in urgent need of restoration work to ensure its survival.
Part of the preservation process involves storing the work in an anoxia bubble where levels of oxygen are maintained at 1% with a relative humidity of less than 50% at 23°C. In order to monitor this environment, the NNA is using two of Michell’s instruments: an XTP600 Oxygen Transmitter and a DM509 RH handheld device.
The XTP600 uses the highly stable thermo-paramagnetic sensing technology to measure levels of oxygen in gases. With its high reliability and low maintenance requirements it is ideal for applications such as this where an instrument is needed to monitor conditions over a long period of time.
The DM509 is a versatile hand-held relative humidity and temperature transmitter. It is not only lightweight and portable, but also easy to operate. This is a vital feature for the NNA staff who want to focus on the restoration work rather than the instrumentation.
The restoration project on this and other textiles is planned to take several years to complete, with the instruments on loan from Michell helping to maintain the environmental conditions throughout.
If you would like more information please contact:
Robert-Jan Pouw
Global Product Manager
Michell Instruments
Burg van Campenhoutstraat 61
4921 KR MADE
The Netherlands
robert.pouw@michell.com
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Li Wei
Global Product Manager
Michell Instruments
48 Lancaster Way Business Park
Ely, Cambridgeshire
CB6 3NW
UK
li.wei@michell.com |
For marketing enquiries, please contact:
Sarah Lawrence
Michell Instruments
48 Lancaster Way Business Park
Ely, Cambridgeshire
CB6 3NW
UK
Tel - +44(0)1353 658 000
Fax - +44(0)1353 658 199
e-mail - sarah.lawrence@michell.com
About Michell Instruments
Established in 1974, the Michell Instruments Group of Companies brings more than 35 years of research, design and technology to the field of instrumentation and control. The current product range includes dew point transmitters, chilled mirror hygrometers, relative humidity (RH) sensors, hydrocarbon dew point analyzers, moisture in liquid analyzers and oxygen analyzers. The company serves industries as diverse as petrochemical and pharmaceutical to power generation and food processing.
Michell Instruments has three manufacturing locations: Made, The Netherlands; Lyon, France and Ely, UK. The company has an extensive network of factory trained application engineers, subsidiaries and distributors stretching across 56 countries.
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