Goniometer
name: label: maker
content: R. Fuess
notes: label: Description
content: William Hyde Wollaston (1766-1828), an English chemist, invented the reflecting goniometer in 1809. Eilhard Mitscherlich (1794-1863), a German chemist, suggested the addition of telescopes in the 1840s. This example, which is of that sort, was made by R. Fuess in Berlin. It was used in the Hammond Metallurgical Laboratory at Yale (hence the "HML" marking), and was discarded when Yale closed that facility in the 1960s.
label: Description
content: Ref: Edward Salisbury Dana, A Text-Book of Minerology (New York, 1889), pp. 115-116.
label: Description
content: Stephen Turner, "The Reflecting Goniometer," Rittenhouse 7 (1993): 84-90.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Robert B. Gordon
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1993.0005.01
label: catalog number
content: 1993.0005.01
label: accession number
content: 1993.0005
objectType: label: Object Name
content: goniometer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 26 cm x 24.2 cm x 25.4 cm; 10 1/4 in x 9 17/32 in x 10 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 1/8 in x 9 1/2 in x 9 1/2 in; 25.7175 cm x 24.13 cm x 24.13 cm