Heliostat
date: label: date made
content: ca 1900
notes: label: Description
content: A heliostat throws sunlight where it might be needed, whether for photography or scientific observations. This example resembles the Foucault heliostat made by the Société Genevoise. A tag on the base reads: “PRESENTED TO COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY BY ERNEST KEMPTON ADAMS.” Ernest Kempton Adams was a graduate of Columbia University. Following his untimely death in 1904, his father donated his large collection of scientific and engineering instruments to Columbia, as well as $50,000 to support physical research.
label: Description
content: Ref: Société Genevoise, <i>Illustrated Price List of Physical and Mechanical Instruments</i> (Geneva, 1900), pp. 85-86.
label: Description
content: "Adams's Gift to Columbia," New York Times (March 24, 1905), p. 9.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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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: Columbia University
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.335221
label: catalog number
content: 335221
label: accession number
content: 315390
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Heliostat
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 21 in x 23 in x 20 in; 53.34 cm x 58.42 cm x 50.8 cm