Diffraction Chromoscope
name: label: maker
content: Scientific Shop
notes: label: Description
content: Frederic Eugene Ives (1856-1937) was an American inventor particularly interested in color photography. He patented a diffraction chromoscope in 1908. The inscription on a metal tag on this example reads “THE SCIENTIFIC SHOP / CHICAGO.”
label: Description
content: The Scientific Shop, a Chicago firm that made and sold precision instruments, was established ca. 1904 by Albert Brown Porter (1864-1909), a graduate of Purdue University who did some graduate work in physics at The Johns Hopkins University, and then taught physics at the Armour Institute.
label: Description
content: Ref: “APPARATUS FOR VIEWING DIFFRACTION COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS,” The Optical Journal (1906): 65-66.
label: Description
content: Frederick Ives, “Diffraction Chromoscope,” U.S. Patent September 8, 1908.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Bucknell University, Department of Physics
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.318424
label: catalog number
content: 318424
label: accession number
content: 235481
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Diffraction Chromoscope
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: tube: 3 in x 2 in; 7.62 cm x 5.08 cm
label: Measurements
content: box: 12 1/2 in x 3 in; 31.75 cm x 7.62 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in box: 4 1/8 in x 3 in x 15 5/8 in; 10.4775 cm x 7.62 cm x 39.6875 cm