pair of infrared goggles
date: label: date made
content: ca 1918
label: date made
content: ca. 1918
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Leather deteriorated, right lens assembly has detached from headband. Donor was Robert Williams Wood (1868-1955), professor of optics at Johns Hopkins University (1901-1955). Inventor of "Wood's glass," a material transmissive of infrared and ultraviolet radiation used in military signaling devices during World War I. Goggles may have light filtering lenses installed.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Robert W. Wood
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.317948.05
label: catalog number
content: 317948.05
label: accession number
content: 232066
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Goggles, Dipcrasite
label: Object Name
content: goggles
label: Other Terms
content: Goggles, Dipcrasite; Components; Optical Devices
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 3/4 in x 7 in x 1 3/4 in; 6.985 cm x 17.78 cm x 4.445 cm