Large Lens on Wooden Stand
notes: label: Description
content: Large lens on wooden stand. This resembles an incomplete optical diagonal machine (aka zograscope) from the mid-nineteenth century.
label: Description
content: Ref: Benjamin Pike, Jr. Pike’s Illustrated Descriptive Catalogue of Optical, Mathematical, and Philosophical Instruments (New York, 1856), vol. 2, p. 185.
label: Description
content: J. A. Chaldecott, "THE ZOGRASCOPE OR OPTICAL DIAGONAL MACHINE," Annals of Science 9 (1953): 315-322.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Western Reserve University
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.322608
label: catalog number
content: 322608
label: accession number
content: 249272
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lens
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 21 3/4 in x 8 1/2 in x 7 7/8 in; 55.245 cm x 21.59 cm x 20.0025 cm