Fabry-Perot Etalon
date: label: date made
content: 1914-1926
name: label: maker
content: Adam Hilger, Ltd.
notes: label: Description
content: This Fabry-Perot etalon was used with the Adam Hilger, Ltd., Constant Deviation Spectrometer in the collection. The inscriptions read “ADAM HILTER LTD / LONDON / ENGLAND” and “THICKNESS OF / ETALON / = 9.8 MMS.” Charles Fabry and Alfred Perot, physicists at the University of Marseilles, described the form in 1899.
label: Description
content: Ref: J. M. Vaughan, <i>The Fabry-Perot Interferometer. History, Theory, Practice and Applications</i> (New York, 1989).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bowdoin College
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1998.0007.05
label: catalog number
content: 1998.0007.05
label: accession number
content: 1998.0007
objectType: label: Object Name
content: spectrometer accessory
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 5/16 in x 3 3/4 in x 3 3/4 in; 8.41375 cm x 9.525 cm x 9.525 cm