Norremberg Polariscope
date: label: date made
content: early 20th century
name: label: Maker
content: Max Kohl
notes: label: Description
content: This Norremberg polariscope has a circular black marble base with a circular mirror in the center. The two vertical brass rods hold three magnifying lenses, an unsilvered glass mirror in a metal frame, and two circular rings graduated in degrees. The moveable glass stage has been lost, as has the analyzer at the top. The “MAX KOHL A.G. CHEMNITZ” inscription refers to a firm that was in business from 1876 to 1937.
label: Description
content: This came to the Smithsonian from the Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Fl. This school had begun as Brevard Engineering College in 1958, and initially held many classes at the nearby Eau Gallie Junior High School. Eau Gallie had been established in 1923, and this polariscope may have been purchased for it.
label: Description
content: Ref: Max Kohl, <i>Physical Apparatus</i> (Chemnitz, 191?), p. 554.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Florida Institute of Technology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.0840.01
label: accession number
content: 1979.0840
label: catalog number
content: 337235
objectType: label: Object Name
content: polariscope
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 37.5 cm x 17.8 cm; 14 3/4 in x 7 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 13/16 in x 5 3/4 in; 37.62375 cm x 14.605 cm