Solar Spectrum
notes: label: Description
content: The inscription at the bottom of this chart reads “THE INFRARED SOLAR SPECTRUM OF A 60° ROCK-SALT PRISM. ENERGY CURVES AND LINE SPECTRUM FROM BOLOGRAPHS OF 1898 / OBSERVATIONS OF S. P. LANGLEY WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF C. G. ABBOT.” The chart comes from the Smithsonian Institution Astrophysical Observatory, Annals, Vol. 1 (1901). This chart expands on Lamansky's Curve of 1871 (which is reproduced in the upper left corner).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1995.0063.01
label: accession number
content: 1995.0063
label: catalog number
content: 1995.0063.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: spectrum, solar
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 in x 39 in; x 33.02 cm x 99.06 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: stored folded: 13 in x 9 1/2 in; 33.02 cm x 24.13 cm