Projection Polariscope
date: label: date made
content: late nineteenth century
notes: label: Description
content: This sophisticated and costly instrument was designed to produce and project a wide variety of polarization phenomena. The “J. Duboscq à Paris No. 161” inscription refers to Jules Duboscq, the scientific instrument maker who introduced the form in the mid-1870s. This example has its original wooden box, and full complement of eyepieces.
label: Description
content: Ref: Maison Jules Duboscq, <i>Historique & Catalogue de tous les Instruments d’Optique Supérieure Appliqués aux Sciences et à l’Industrie</i> (Paris, 1885), p. 84.
label: Description
content: Bertin, “Notice sur la projection des experiences de polarisaion,” <i>Journal de physique théorique et appliquée</i> 4 (1875): 72-84, 111-120.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: U. S. Military Academy
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.315421
label: catalog number
content: 315421
label: accession number
content: 217544
objectType: label: Object Name
content: polarimeter
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall; stand: 14 1/4 in x 8 7/16 in x 8 1/8 in; 36.195 cm x 21.43125 cm x 20.6375 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall; box: 6 in x 21 1/2 in x 10 7/8 in; 15.24 cm x 54.61 cm x 27.6225 cm