Spectroscope
date: label: date made
content: 1875
name: label: maker
content: Hilger, Adam
notes: label: Description
content: Brass spectroscope with six glass prisms, and an “A. Hilger London” inscription. Adam Hilger (1839-1897) was a precision instrument maker from Darmstadt who moved to London around 1870, and who established his own shop around 1875. The “J.B. Stearns 1875” inscription probably refers to Joseph Barker Stearns (1831-1895), inventor of the duplex system of telegraphy, and probably the man who gave this instrument to Smith College. Located in Northampton, Mass. and opened in 1875, Smith College promised women students lectures and laboratories equal to those offered elsewhere to men.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
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: Smith College
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0098.01
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0098.01
label: accession number
content: 1980.0098
objectType: label: Object Name
content: spectroscope
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 in; 38.1 cm