Spectroscope
date: label: date made
content: 1877
name: label: maker
content: Clark, Alvan
notes: label: Description
content: The John C. Green Observatory for student instruction was erected at Princeton University in 1877, and equipped with a 9½ inch refracting telescope made by Alvan Clark & Sons of Cambridgeport, Mass. This spectroscope was designed for use with that telescope. It was made by the Clarks, and could hold either a prism or a diffraction grating.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Cambridge
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Optics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Princeton University
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.328661.1
label: catalog number
content: 328661.1
label: accession number
content: 275579
objectType: label: Object Name
content: spectroscope
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 29 1/2 in x 19 in x 8 in; 74.93 cm x 48.26 cm x 20.32 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 28 in x 14 in x 7 1/2 in; 71.12 cm x 35.56 cm x 19.05 cm