Reflecting Polariscope
date: label: date made
content: around 1900
name: label: maker
content: Queen and Company
notes: label: Description
content: Fairly rugged and inexpensive reflecting polariscope with a wooden frame, a horizontal plate of blackened glass for the polarizer, a brass stage to hold the object to be examined, a magnifying lens, and a Nichol prism analyzer. The “Queen & CO / MAKERS / PHILADELPHIA” inscription near the eyepiece refers the successors to the firm that introduced this type of instrument in the 1880s.
label: Description
content: Ref: James W. Queen & Co., Special List of New Polariscopes and Polarizing Objects for the Use of Schools and Colleges (Philadelphia, 1887).
label: Description
content: James. W. Queen & Co., Catalogue and Price-List of Instruments and Apparatus Used in Physical Optics (Philadelphia, 1892).
label: Description
content: Queen & Co., Inc., Catalogue of Physical Apparatus (Philadelphia, 1898), pp. 88-90.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: University of Missouri at Rolla
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1996.0263.02
label: accession number
content: 1996.0263
label: catalog number
content: 1996.0263.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: polariscope
label: Object Name
content: Polariscope
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 27.5 cm x 44 cm x 11.8 cm; 10 13/16 in x 17 5/16 in x 4 5/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 3/4 in x 4 5/8 in x 17 5/16 in; 27.305 cm x 11.7475 cm x 43.97375 cm