Solar Spectrum
date: label: date made
content: 1876
name: label: maker
content: Draper, Henry
notes: label: Description
content: Henry Draper (1837-1882) was a New York physician who did pioneering work with astronomical photography and spectroscopy. He was particularly proud of having seen bright lines, which saw as evidence of oxygen, in the solar spectrum. This image is marked “DISCOVERY OF OXYGEN IN THE SUN BY PHOTOGRAPHY, BY PROFESSOR HENRY DRAPER, M.D. 1876.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Henry Draper, “Discovery of Oxygen in the Sun by Photography, and a new Theory of the Solar Spectrum,” <i>American Journal of Science</i> 14 (1877): 89-96.
label: Description
content: George F. Barker, “Memoir of Henry Draper,” <i>Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences</i> 3 (1895), pp. 81-139.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Science
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: John William Christopher Draper and James Christopher Draper
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.333976
label: accession number
content: 304826
label: catalog number
content: 333976
objectType: label: Object Name
content: photograph, spectrum
label: Object Name
content: photograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 in x 28 in x 1/4 in; 35.56 cm x 71.12 cm x .635 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 71 cm x 14 cm x .8 cm; 27 15/16 in x 5 1/2 in x 5/16 in