Heat Reflector (2)
notes: label: Description
content: Heat reflectors of this sort were sometimes termed Pictet’s apparatus, as Marc Auguste Pictet (1752-1825), professor of natural philosophy at Geneva and Fellow of the Royal Society of London, showed that heat could be reflected in the same way that light is.
label: Description
content: Ref: Benjamin Pike, Jr., <i>Pike’s Illustrated Descriptive Catalogue of Optical, Mathematical, and Philosophical Instruments</i> (New York, 1848), vol. 2, pp. 98-99.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.325779.01
label: accession number
content: 255505
label: catalog number
content: 325779.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: heat reflectors
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall; stand, each: 15 in x 8 in; 38.1 cm x 20.32 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall; reflectors, each: 2 1/2 in x 12 7/16 in; 6.35 cm x 31.59125 cm