Reflectometer
name: label: maker
content: Henry A. Gardner Laboratory
notes: label: Description
content: Richard S. Hunter (1910-1991) was a graduate of George Washington University who joined the color division at the National Bureau of Standards in 1927. He developed a multipurpose reflectometer for color analysis in 1937. He went to work for the Henry A. Gardner Laboratory in Washington, D.C., in 1946. And in 1952 he established Hunter Associates Laboratory, producing instruments that measured color and appearance, in McLean, Virginia.
label: Description
content: This instrument came from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. A metal tag reads “HUNTER MULT-PURPOSE REFLECTOMETER No. 616 HENRY A GARDNER LABORATORY, INC., WASHINGTON, D.C.”
label: Description
content: Ref: “Richard S. Hunter, Color Specialist,” <i>The Washington Post</i> (Jan. 19, 1991), p. B6.
label: Description
content: “Dr. Henry Gardner, 90, Founder of Laboratory,” <i>The Washington Post</i> (Jan. 30, 1973), p. C4.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Department of Chemistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0496.03
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0496.03
label: accession number
content: 1981.0496
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Hunter Multipurpose Reflectometer
label: Object Name
content: Reflectometer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: steel sheet metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: bakelite (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ivory (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: aluminum (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: celluloid (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 29.9 cm x 43.2 cm x 48.2 cm; 11 25/32 in x 17 in x 18 31/32 in