GE Taylor Germicidal Reflectometer
date: label: date made
content: ca 1948
name: label: maker
content: General Electric Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A steel case with meter and adjustment on front, reflective mirror on back, adjustment dial on one side, handle on top. Meter graduated 0 to 90 by tens, and reads: “Percent Reflectance at λ2537”. The mirror slides off to allow access to the internal mechanism. A mercury vapor lamp is mounted horizontally inside the meter. References: General Electric Review 50 (1947): page 27; Electrical World 129 (1948): page 134; Instruments: The Magazine of Measurement, Inspection, Testing, Control 21 (1948): page 77.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of GE Lighting, A Savant Company, through Gerald Duffy
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2023.0016.03
label: accession number
content: 2023.0016
label: catalog number
content: 2023.0016.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: light meter
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 in x 7 in x 4 1/2 in; 15.24 cm x 17.78 cm x 11.43 cm