In 1903 Keith Lucas came back to Cambridge after two years spent in New Zealand to collect fauna from the lakes. He was made a Fellow of Trinity in 1904 and began his experimental work at the Physiological Laboratory. In these days the Laboratory reckoned many distinguished physiologists such as Archibald V. Hill, George Ralph Mines and John Newport Langley, which allowed Lucas to have a working room. Besides the room at his disposition in the University Laboratory, he had a personal workshop at his house. Lucas's mechanical skills are renowned: he gained an exceptional knowledge of mechanical principles and of the right use of tools. For example, he was able to record the electric responses of the sciatic-gas-trocnemius preparation (or of the sartorius muscle) of the frog (Rana temporaria) with the capillary electrometer. This instrument was chosen rather than the string galvanometer, because admirably adapted to follow the rapid changes in striated muscles by casting the shadow of a column mercury in a capillary tube.
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机译:1903年,基思·卢卡斯(Keith Lucas)在新西兰度过了两年从湖泊中收集动物之后,回到了剑桥。 1904年,他被任命为三位一体研究员,并在生理实验室开始了他的实验工作。在这些日子里,实验室计算出许多杰出的生理学家,例如Archibald V. Hill,George Ralph Mines和John Newport Langley,这使卢卡斯有了工作室。除了他在大学实验室工作的房间外,他还在自己的房子里有一个私人工作室。卢卡斯(Lucas)的机械技能享誉世界:他获得了有关机械原理和正确使用工具的出色知识。例如,他能够用毛细管静电计记录青蛙(Rana temporaria)坐骨神经-腓肠肌制剂(或sartorius肌肉)的电响应。选择该仪器而不是使用弦振计,是因为它通过在毛细管中投射柱状水银的阴影,可很好地适应跟随横纹肌的快速变化。
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