Spectroscope
date: label: date made
content: 1900-1923
name: label: maker
content: Heele, Hans
notes: label: Description
content: Simple one-prism, three-arm brass spectroscope on an iron tri-leg base. The "HEELE-BERLIN" inscription on the prism cover is that of Hans Heele, a German firm that made a wide range of precision optical and mechanical instruments. Heele was in business by 1893, and aquired by Bamberg in 1923. The "IMPORTED BY ARTHUR H. THOMAS CO. PHILADELPHIA" tag on one leg refers to an instrument supply firm that was established in 1900.
label: Description
content: Ref: Hans Heele, <i>Spectroscopes and Spectroscopic Accessories</i> (Berlin, 1907), pp. 14-15.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Berlin, Berlin
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: Lafayette College
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0826.01
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0826.01
label: accession number
content: 1981.0826
objectType: label: Object Name
content: spectroscope
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 1/4 in; 28.575 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 1/4 in x 13 1/2 in x 18 1/4 in; 28.575 cm x 34.29 cm x 46.355 cm