Spectrometer
date: label: date made
content: 1890s
name: label: maker
content: Societe Genevoise
notes: label: Description
content: The manufacturer described this instrument as a “Laboratory Spectrometer, Bunsen’s model,” noting that it had a stationary circle 27 cm diameter, divided into 10’ and read by verniers to 10" of arc. 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: Ref: Société Genevoise, <i>Illustrated Price List of Physical and Mechanical Instruments</i> (Geneva, 1900), pp. 89-90.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Switzerland: Genève, Geneva
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Optics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Columbia University
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.335218
label: catalog number
content: 335218
label: accession number
content: 315390
objectType: label: Object Name
content: spectrometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 5/8 in x 4 1/8 in x 4 1/4 in; 14.2875 cm x 10.4775 cm x 10.795 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 3/4 in x 15 in x 18 in; 40.005 cm x 38.1 cm x 45.72 cm