Polyprism
name: label: maker
content: Lerebours
notes: label: Description
content: This instrument was purchased for the U.S. Military Academy in 1830. It consists of five small glass containers lined up on a brass stand. When each container is filled with a different liquid, one can see that they refract light in different ways. The “Lerebours à Paris” inscription refers to Noel Jean Lerebours, an instrument maker in Paris in the early nineteenth century.
label: Description
content: Ref: Lerebours et Secretan, <i>Catalogue et Prix des Instruments</i> (Paris, 1853), p. 35.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: U.S. Military Academy
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.315641
label: catalog number
content: 315641
label: accession number
content: 217544
objectType: label: Object Name
content: polyprism
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 1/2 in x 7 3/4 in x 3 1/2 in; 31.75 cm x 19.685 cm x 8.89 cm