Goniometer
name: label: maker
content: Fuess, Rudolph
notes: label: Description
content: The “R. Fuess / Berlin” inscription on the horizontal circle of this large optical goniometer refers to a German firm that began in business in the late nineteenth century, and that made many goniometers. This example belonged to, and was probably used by, the Danish-American instrument maker, Lauritz C. Eichner.
label: Description
content: Ref: Carl Leiss, <i>Die Optischen Instrumente der Firma R. Fuess</i> (Leipzig, 1899).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
label: place made
content: Germany: Schleswig-Holstein, Berlin
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.328753
label: catalog number
content: 328753
label: accession number
content: 308252
objectType: label: Object Name
content: goniometer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: aluminum (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 1/2 in x 16 in x 18 in; 31.75 cm x 40.64 cm x 45.72 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 1/2 in x 17 in x 19 1/2 in; 31.75 cm x 43.18 cm x 49.53 cm