Dichroscope
name: label: maker
content: R. Fuess
notes: label: Description
content: A dichroscope measures the pleochroism, or refractive nature, of doubly refracting crystals. Wilhelm Karl Haidinger designed the basic form. Our example resembles the improved form introduced in 1881 by Viktor Von Lang (1838-1921), a chemist who served as director of Physikalisches Kabinett in Vienna. The inscription on the light shield reads “R. FUESS STEGLITZ-BERLIN.”
label: Description
content: Ref: C. Leiss, <i>Die Optischen Instrumente der Firma R. Fuess</i> (Leipzig, 1899), pp. 179-182.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Berlin, Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Steglitz
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Columbia University
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2001.0162.08
label: accession number
content: 2001.0162
label: catalog number
content: 2001.0162.08
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dichroscope
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 38 cm x 25 cm x 28 cm; 14 31/32 in x 9 27/32 in x 11 1/32 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 1/8 in x 9 1/2 in x 9 1/16 in; 38.4175 cm x 24.13 cm x 23.01875 cm