Goniometer
date: label: date made
content: 1890s
name: label: maker
content: Societe Genevoise d’Instruments de Physique
notes: label: Description
content: Multi-purpose instrument that could serve as a reflection goniometer to measure the angles between the faces of a crystal, or as a spectrometer to measure the dispersion of light through a prism. The horizontal circle is 15 cm diameter, and divided to ½ degrees. The “SOCIETE GENEVOISE / POUR LA CONSTRUCTION / D’INSTRUMENTS DE Physique / GENEVE” inscription refers to a firm that, since its founding in 1862, has supplied sophisticated apparatus to laboratories around the world.
label: Description
content: This instrument was purchased for the Mary Frances Searles Science Building at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Me. This imposing building, dedicated in 1894, symbolized the importance of the natural sciences within an American liberal education.
label: Description
content: Ref: Société Genevoise, <i>Illustrated Price List of Physical and Mechanical Instruments</i> (Geneva, 1900), p. 48.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Switzerland: Genève, Geneva
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1992.0477.04
label: catalog number
content: 1992.0477.04
label: accession number
content: 1992.0477
objectType: label: Object Name
content: goniometer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: aluminum (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/2 in x 7 1/2 in x 6 in; 16.51 cm x 19.05 cm x 15.24 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 in x 6 3/4 in x 6 in; 15.24 cm x 17.145 cm x 15.24 cm