Nernst glower
date: label: Date made
content: 1949
name: label: maker
content: Perkin-Elmer
notes: label: Description
content: In the late 1890s, a German scientist named Walter Nernst designed an incandescent lamp that used a ceramic rod (rather than a tungsten filament) heated to incandescence. After Nernst lamps fell into disuse, scientists found that Nernst glowers would serve as infrared sources for spectroscopy. This example came with the Model 21 Perkin-Elmer spectrophotometer in the collection. It is contained in a plastic jar marked “021-0398 / Part Number.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Pomona College, Chemistry Department
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2000.0091.06
label: catalog number
content: 2000.0091.06
label: accession number
content: 2000.0091
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Glower
label: Object Name
content: Nernst Glower for Perkin-Elmer Model 21 Spectrophotometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4.1 cm x 3.7 cm; 1 5/8 in x 1 7/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in x 2 3/4 in; 8.89 cm x 6.985 cm