Diffraction Grating
name: label: Associated Name
content: Bowdoin College. Department of Physics
notes: label: Description
content: Frederic Eugene Ives (1856-1937) was an honored and accomplished American inventor who specialized in photography and other optical fields. Paper labels on this item read “Ives Prism Grating Replica” and “No. 1xp, $7.50 F. E. Ives.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Frederic E. Ives, “Diffraction-Grating Replica,” U.S. Patent 818,966 (April 24, 1906).
label: Description
content: Ad for Ives’ New Process Replicas of Rowland’s Diffraction Gratings, offered by The Scientific Shop in Chicago, in Science 23 (Feb. 12, 1906): i.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: gift of Bowdoin College
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2003.0013.01
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0013.01
label: accession number
content: 2003.0013
objectType: label: Object Name
content: ives prism grating (replica)
label: Object Name
content: ives prism grating
label: Object Name
content: Ives diffraction grating
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1.3 cm x 4.3 cm x 4.3 cm; 1/2 in x 1 11/16 in x 1 11/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 in x 2 1/2 in x 3 1/2 in; 5.08 cm x 6.35 cm x 8.89 cm