Polarimeter
name: label: maker
content: Franz Schmidt & Haensch
notes: label: Description
content: In 1929, shortly after becoming Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Charles Greeley Abbot established a Division of Radiation and Organisms to study relationships between solar radiation and the growth of plants. This polarimeter, which may have been acquired soon thereafter, was made by Franz Schmidt & Haensch in Berlin, and sold by Akatos, a scientific instrument firm in New York. It has an electric sodium light.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Schleswig-Holstein, Berlin
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Walt Shropshire
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2008.0009.02.01
label: catalog number
content: 2008.0009.02.01
label: accession number
content: 2008.0009
objectType: label: Object Name
content: polarimeter
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall`: 18 in x 24 in x 10 in; 45.72 cm x 60.96 cm x 25.4 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 19 1/2 in x 9 in x 33 3/4 in; 49.53 cm x 22.86 cm x 85.725 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: p7150: 37 in x 48 in x 40 in; 93.98 cm x 121.92 cm x 101.6 cm