Spectrometer
name: label: maker
content: Central Scientific Company
notes: label: Description
content: This AO Spencer spectrometer came from the chemistry department of Lehigh University. The Spencer Lens Co. was purchased by the American Optical Co. in 1935; and became the Scientific Instrument Division of the American Optical Co. in 1945.
label: Description
content: Ref: Roger S. Estey, <i>The Use of the AO Spencer Spectrometer</i> (Buffalo, N.Y., 1938).
label: Description
content: “Spencer Lens’s New Name,” New York Times (June 22, 1945), p. 27.
label: Description
content: American Optical Co. ad for the Spencer Spectrometer in <i>American Scientist</i> 35 (January 1947): front matter.
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: PH.337145
label: catalog number
content: 337145
label: accession number
content: 1979.0432
objectType: label: Object Name
content: spectrometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/2 in x 8 7/8 in x 14 1/2 in; 19.05 cm x 22.5425 cm x 36.83 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in case: 11 1/4 in x 10 7/8 in x 15 3/4 in; 28.575 cm x 27.6225 cm x 40.005 cm