Spectroscope Kit
date: label: date made
content: late 19th century
name: label: maker
content: Franz Schmidt & Haensch
notes: label: Description
content: This kit consists of a small direct vision spectroscope, a support rod, six test tubes, and assorted paraphernalia. The “Franz Schmidt & Haensch / Berlin, S.” inscription on the case refers to an optical instrument firm that began in business in 1864, and that trades today as Schmidt & Haensch.
label: Description
content: Franz Schmidt & Haensch began making these instruments in the 1870s, and displayed some at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. The accompanying publication mentioned “Browning’s Pocket Spectroscope with 3 prisms, movable slit and reflecting prism for examining the spectra” as well as the complete apparatus with universal stand according to the German photochemist, H. W. Vogel.
label: Description
content: Ref: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Mechanik und Optik, <i>Special Catalogue of the Collective Exhibition of Scientific Instruments and Appliances</i> (Berlin, 1893), p. 71.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: 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: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1987.0924.03
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0924.03
label: accession number
content: 1987.0924
objectType: label: Object Name
content: spectroscope kit
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 1/2 in; 31.75 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in case: 2 3/8 in x 13 1/8 in x 7 1/4 in; 6.0325 cm x 33.3375 cm x 18.415 cm