Diffraction Grating (replica)
notes: label: Description
content: Josef von Fraunhofer (1787-1826) was a Bavarian physicist and optical instrument maker who developed the diffraction grating and, in 1814, discovered the dark lines in the solar spectrum. This is replica of a Fraunhofer grating now in the Deutsches Museum in Munich.
label: Description
content: Ref: Miles W. Jackson, <i>Spectrum of Belief: Josef von Fraunhofer and the Craft of Precision Optics</i> (Cambridge, 2000).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.325367
label: catalog number
content: 325367
label: accession number
content: 256843
objectType: label: Object Name
content: diffraction grating (replica)
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/4 in x 2 3/16 in x 1 7/8 in; 4.445 cm x 5.55625 cm x 4.7625 cm