Dichroscope
Dichroscope
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- Description
- A dichroscope measures the pleochroism, or refractive nature, of doubly refracting crystals. Wilhelm Karl Haidinger designed the basic form. Our example resembles the improved form introduced in 1881 by Viktor Von Lang (1838-1921), a chemist who served as director of Physikalisches Kabinett in Vienna. The inscription on the light shield reads “R. FUESS STEGLITZ-BERLIN.”
- Ref: C. Leiss, Die Optischen Instrumente der Firma R. Fuess (Leipzig, 1899), pp. 179-182.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- dichroscope
- maker
- R. Fuess
- place made
- Germany: Berlin, Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Steglitz
- Measurements
- overall: 38 cm x 25 cm x 28 cm; 14 31/32 in x 9 27/32 in x 11 1/32 in
- overall: 15 1/8 in x 9 1/2 in x 9 1/16 in; 38.4175 cm x 24.13 cm x 23.01875 cm
- ID Number
- 2001.0162.08
- accession number
- 2001.0162
- catalog number
- 2001.0162.08
- Credit Line
- Columbia University
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- Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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