Lantern Slide
Lantern Slide
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- Description
- Mechanical lantern slide with paper label reading “MOVEABLE ASTRONOMICAL SLIDERS. / No.11 / This Diagram shows the various Eclipses of Jupiter’s / Moons / CARPENTER & WESTLEY, REGENT-STREET, LONDON.” “No 11” is incised on the edge ide of the wooden frame. The crank mechanism is missing.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- lantern slide
- maker
- Carpenter and Westley
- place made
- United Kingdom: England, London, City of London
- Measurements
- overall: 1/2 in x 7 in x 3 3/4 in; 1.27 cm x 17.78 cm x 9.525 cm
- ID Number
- 1988.0385.02
- catalog number
- 1988.0385.02
- accession number
- 1988.0385
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- Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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