Heat Reflector
name: label: maker
content: Lerebours
notes: label: Description
content: Large brass parabolic mirror designed to demonstrate the reflection of heat, and the effect of heat on an object at the focus. The form came into use in the eighteenth century. The “Lerebours à Paris” inscription on this example is that of Noel-Jean Lerebours (1761-1840), a prominent French instrument maker.
label: Description
content: Ref: Lerebours, <i>Catalogue et Prix des Instruments d’Optique, de Physique, de Mathématiques , d’Astronomie et de Marine</i> (Paris, 1837), p. 25.
label: Description
content: Lerebours et Secretan, <i>Catalogue et Prix des Instruments d’Optique, de Physique, de Mathématiques , d’Astronomie et de Marine</i> (Paris, 1853), p. 98.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Département de Ville-de-Paris
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: From Trinity College Thru: Prof. Robert Lindsay & Prof. August Sapega
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.326920
label: catalog number
content: 326920
label: accession number
content: 263350
objectType: label: Object Name
content: heat reflector
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 40 in x 20 in x 20 in; 101.6 cm x 50.8 cm x 50.8 cm