Spectroscope
date: label: date made
content: 1881-1895
name: label: Associated Name
content: Hipp, Matthäus
label: maker
content: Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company
notes: label: Description
content: Taking his newly-invented bolometer to Mount Whitney in the summer of 1881, Samuel Pierpont Langley investigated what he termed the “lower infra-red spectrum” of the sun. After becoming Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in 1887, Langley established an Astrophysical Observatory to further research in this area. This two-prism spectroscope was part of the early equipment of that organization. The “Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company” inscription refers to a firm that was established in 1881, and that became the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company Ltd. in 1895.
label: Description
content: Ref: <i>Annals of the Astrophysical Observatory of the Smithsonian Institution </i> 1 (1900): 32.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, Cambridge
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Optics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Smithsonian Institution
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.314626
label: catalog number
content: 314626
label: accession number
content: 208046
objectType: label: Object Name
content: spectroscope
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 in; 30.48 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 1/2 in x 18 1/2 in x 19 1/4 in; 29.21 cm x 46.99 cm x 48.895 cm