Magic Lantern
notes: label: Description
content: This (now incomplete) projector (or magic lantern) was used at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N.J. It was probably made by George Wale (1840-ca. 1903) or the partnership of Hawkins & Wale. George Wale began his career making lenses for microscopes and cameras. Around 1870, Hawkins & Wale became instrument makers at the Stevens Institute of Technology, working with students and faculty, and selling instruments on the open market. Hawkins moved on in 1874, and Wale began signing his instruments “Geo. Wale & Co.”
label: Description
content: Ref: George Barker, “Contributions from the Physical Laboratory of the University of Pennsylvania, No. 1—A New Vertical Lantern Galvanometer,” <i>Journal of the Franklin Institute</i> 99 (1875): 431-436.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Stevens Institute of Technology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1993.0087.03
label: catalog number
content: 1993.0087.3
label: accession number
content: 1993.0087
objectType: label: Object Name
content: magic lantern
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 3/4 in x 9 in x 18 19/32 in; 27.305 cm x 22.86 cm x 47.244 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 18 5/8 in x 9 7/8 in x 9 3/16 in; 47.3075 cm x 25.0825 cm x 23.33625 cm