Fluorescent Compounds
name: label: maker
content: General Electric Company
notes: label: Description
content: Box of fluorescent compounds with an inscription that reads "W. S. Andrews to W. J. Hammer, Schenectady, March 8, 1921." William Symes Andrews (1847-1929) was an electrical engineer, and an early employee of the General Electric Company. William J. Hammer (1858-1934) was an electrical engineer who worked with Edison.
label: Description
content: Ref: William J. Hammer, <i>Radium and Other Radioactive Substances. Polonium, Actinium, and Thorium, with a Consideration of Phosphorescent and Fluorescent Substances, the Properties and Applications of Selenium and the Treatment of Disease by the Ultraviolet Light</i> (New York, 1903).
label: Description
content: Max Kohl, <i>Physical Apparatus</i> (Chemnitz, 191?), p. 519.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of International Business Machines Corporation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.320564
label: catalog number
content: 320564
label: accession number
content: 241402
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Fluorescent Compounds, Boxed Samples of
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: box: 6 in x 4 in; 15.24 cm x 10.16 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 6 9/16 in x 4 1/2 in; 2.54 cm x 16.66875 cm x 11.43 cm