Spectroscope
date: label: date made
content: 1869
name: label: maker
content: Hofmann, Jean Georges
notes: label: Description
content: Brass instrument with a three-prism assembly and an iron tri-leg base. The “SPECTROSCOPE-HOFMANN à Vision directe / par J. G. Hofmann à Paris” inscription on the main tube refers to J. G. Hofmann, a German instrument maker who specialized in direct vision spectroscopes. It was purchased for Woodstock College, a Jesuit school in Maryland that opened in 1869; it was transferred to Weston College in Massachusetts in 1924.
label: Description
content: Ref. D.J. Warner, “Direct Vision Spectroscopes,” <i>Rittenhouse</i>7 (1993): 40-48.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
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: Weston College
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.328485
label: catalog number
content: 328485
label: accession number
content: 271661
objectType: label: Object Name
content: spectroscope
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: tube: 19 in; 48.26 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 3/4 in x 18 1/8 in x 9 1/4 in; 32.385 cm x 46.0375 cm x 23.495 cm