Spectroscope
date: label: date made
content: ca 1900
notes: label: Description
content: This is a simple instrument on a tri-leg base. The “Queen & Co. Phila.” inscription on the table refers to the largest purveyor of scientific apparatus in the United States in the second half of the nineteenth century. In 1889, Queen described this instrument as their new Student’s spectroscope, complete with comparison prism. New, it cost $40. Our example is missing its prisms.
label: Description
content: Ref: James W. Queen & Co., Priced and Illustrated Catalogue of Chemical Apparatus (Philadelphia, 1889), p. 285.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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: Mount St. Mary’s College
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.326112
label: catalog number
content: 326112
label: accession number
content: 257245
objectType: label: Object Name
content: spectroscope
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/2 in; 24.13 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 5/16 in x 12 15/16 in x 5 7/16 in; 23.65375 cm x 32.86125 cm x 13.81125 cm