Spectrometer
date: label: date made
content: 1894
name: label: maker
content: Franz Schmidt & Haensch
notes: label: Description
content: This prism spectrometer was made by Franz Schmidt & Haensch, of Berlin, and purchased from Alfred Hirschmann, for the Ryerson Laboratory at the University of Chicago, on Jan. 1, 1894. The cost was $112.50. The inked “R.L. 194” inscription refers to the Ryerson Laboratory.
label: Description
content: Alfred Hirschmann was at the Columbian Exposition, in Chicago in 1893, representing Franz Schmidt & Haensch, and the Physikalish Technische Reichsanstalt in Berlin. He was in charge of the German instrument exhibit.
label: Description
content: Ref: The World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893. <i>Special Catalogue of the Collective Exhibition of Scientific Instruments and Appliances exhibited by the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Mechanik und Optik</i> (Berlin, 1893), pp. 19-22.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Berlin, Berlin
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.336608
label: catalog number
content: 336608
label: accession number
content: 1978.0798
label: accession number
content: 1979.0798
objectType: label: Object Name
content: spectrometer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ivory? (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 1/2 in x 15 3/4 in x 20 1/2 in; 31.75 cm x 40.005 cm x 52.07 cm