Spectrometer
Spectrometer
- Description
- This is a research quality spectrometer with horizontal circle 25.5 cm diameter, divided to 1/12 degrees, and read by microscopes and verniers. The “SOCIETE GENEVOISE / Pour la Construction ‘D’Instruments de Physique / GENEVE” inscription refers to a firm that, since its founding in 1862, has supplied sophisticated apparatus to laboratories around the world.
- This instrument was purchased for the Mary Frances Searles science building at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Me. This imposing building, dedicated in 1894, symbolized the importance of the natural sciences within an American liberal education.
- Ref: Société Genevoise, Illustrated Price List of Physical and Mechanical Instruments (Geneva, 1900), pp. 87-88.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- spectrometer
- date made
- 1890s
- maker
- Societe Genevoise
- place made
- Switzerland: Genève, Geneva
- Physical Description
- brass (overall material)
- aluminum (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 19 1/2 in x 34 19/32 in x 15 in; 49.53 cm x 87.884 cm x 38.1 cm
- ID Number
- 1992.0477.08
- accession number
- 1992.0477
- catalog number
- 1992.0477.08
- Credit Line
- Bowdoin College
- subject
- Science & Scientific Instruments
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
- Science & Mathematics
- Optics
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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