A Bridgman seal, named after Percy Williams Bridgman, seals a high pressure volume by the use of a three-part mechanism.
A modern American edition, based on the 1888 edition, was edited by the American physicist and father of "operationalism", Percy Williams Bridgman (Belknap Press, Harvard University Press, 1960).
The house is notable for its associations with former resident Dr. Percy Williams Bridgman, a physicist, Nobel Prize winner, and Harvard University professor.
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