Color Apparatus
Color Apparatus
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- Description
- The Von Nardroff color mixer produces three beams of colored light that can be projected onto a white surface. Dr. Ernest Robert Von Nardroff (1864-1938), a science teacher who served for many years as principal of Stuyvesant High School in New York City, designed the form. This example came from Beloit College.
- Ref: Knott, Apparatus Catalogue (Boston, 19xx), p. 321.
- Tom Greenslade, “The Von Nardroff Color Mixing Apparatus,” The Physics Teacher 43 (2006): 602.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Color Apparatus
- maker
- Von Nardroff
- Measurements
- overall: 19 cm x 25.4 cm; 7 1/2 in x 10 in
- overall: 7 1/2 in x 9 in x 7 1/8 in; 19.05 cm x 22.86 cm x 18.0975 cm
- ID Number
- CH.329683
- catalog number
- 329683
- accession number
- 273104
- Credit Line
- Gift of Colby Collect Department of Physics & Astronomy
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- Medicine and Science: Chemistry
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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