Heliostat
name: label: maker
content: Queen and Company
notes: label: Description
content: Heliostat probably used to throw sunlight into one of the rooms of the Salisbury Laboratories, a Worcester Polytechnic Institute building that was opened in 1889. The “QUEEN & CO. PHILA.” inscription refers to a major supplier of scientific apparatus.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1987.0924.02
label: accession number
content: 1987.0924
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0924.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: heliostat
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 32 cm x 47.5 cm x 17.3 cm; 12 19/32 in x 18 11/16 in x 6 13/16 in
label: Measurements
content: wooden base: 42 mm x 36.5 cm x 17.3 cm; 1 21/32 in x 14 3/8 in x 6 13/16 in
label: Measurements
content: mirror: 15.2 cm x 25.4 cm; 5 31/32 in x 10 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 in x 16 1/8 in x 6 7/8 in; 30.48 cm x 40.9575 cm x 17.4625 cm