Spectroscope
date: label: date made
content: ca 1870-1890
name: label: maker
content: Browning, John
notes: label: Description
content: This spectroscope has a collimator with slit, a viewing telescope, and a brass stand with iron trileg base. One quarter of the horizontal circle is graduated to 20’ and read by vernier. The original prism has been lost. The “John Browning 63 Strand, London” inscription on the circle refers to John Browning (ca. 1831-1925), the first important English spectroscope maker. Browning moved to that address in 1872, sold his firm in 1900, and termed this a Student’s Spectroscope.
label: Description
content: The “J. W. Queen & Co. PHILADELPHIA” inscription on a tag refers to an American firm that was selling Browning instruments by 1874.
label: Description
content: This came from Baldwin-Wallace University in Berea, Ohio, but whether it was originally owned by the Baldwin Institute or the German Wallace College is not yet known.
label: Description
content: Ref: John Browning, <i>How to Work with the Spectroscope</i> (London, 1878), p. 14.
label: Description
content: James W. Queen & Co., Illustrated Catalogue of Instruments Used in Physical Optics (Philadelphia, 1888), p. 57.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Optics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Baldwin-Wallace College
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0386.04
label: accession number
content: 1985.0386
label: catalog number
content: 85.386.4
objectType: label: Object Name
content: spectroscope
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 30 cm x 50 cm x 45 cm; 11 13/16 in x 19 11/16 in x 17 11/16 in