Leslie Cube
notes: label: Description
content: A Leslie cube is used to measure, or demonstrate, variations in thermal radiation emitted from different surfaces at the same temperature. John Leslie (1766-1832), a Scottish physicist, described the form in 1804.
label: Description
content: Ref: John Leslie, <i>An Experimental Inquiry into the Nature and Propagation of Heat</i> (Edinburgh, 1804).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bowdoin College, Department of Physics
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1992.0477.06
label: catalog number
content: 1992.0477.06
label: accession number
content: 1992.0477
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Leslie cube
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 7.2 cm x 18.4 cm x 7 cm; 2 13/16 in x 7 1/4 in x 2 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 13/16 in x 7 3/16 in x 2 3/4 in; 7.14375 cm x 18.25625 cm x 6.985 cm