Science History Institute Science History Institute

Digital Collections

Digital Collections

  • About
  • FAQ
  • Contact

Limit Dates

 – 
Featured Topics

Instruments & Innovation

1 item

This digital collection features selected scientific instruments, apparatus, and analytical tools from the Institute's museum as well as photographs, rare-book engravings, and illustrations depicting various types of equipment and machinery found in laboratories, manufacturing plants, and mechanical treatises. Inventions from book wheels to fireballs can be found here, alongside more modern innovations such as Gammacells and Geiger counters.

Search within featured Instruments & Innovation items

You Searched For

Start Over You searched for:
Search
Creator Photovolt Corporation ✖Remove constraint Creator: Photovolt Corporation Genre Scientific apparatus and instruments ✖Remove constraint Genre: Scientific apparatus and instruments Place New York (State)--New York ✖Remove constraint Place: New York (State)--New York Date 1940 ✖Remove constraint Date: <span class='single'>1940</span>

Limit your search

  • 1940 ✖ [remove] 1
–

Current results range from 1940 to 1949

  • 1940 to 1940 1

  • Colorimetry--Instruments1
  • Photovolt Corporation1

  • Photovolt Corporation✖[remove]1

  • Electronics1
  • Scientific apparatus and instruments✖[remove]1

  • Physical Object1

  • New York (State)--New York✖[remove]1

  • Public Domain Mark 1.01

  • Museum1
1 entry found
newest date oldest date recently added
  • Scientific apparatus and instruments, Electronics

    Lumetron Photoelectric Colorimeter Model 400-A

    • 1940s

    Electric-powered meter with instructions housed in wooden box. Movable components within box: two (2) slide glass filters (1 with red, green, and blue slides; 1 with orange, green, and blue slides); one (1) encasing to…

    • Manufacturer Photovolt Corporation
    • Subject Colorimetry--Instruments, Photovolt Corporation

Science History Institute

Headquarters
315 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
215.925.2222
Get Directions
West Coast Office
2120 University Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94704
Get in Touch
European Office
Maison de la Chimie
28, Rue Saint-Dominique
75007 Paris
Get in Touch
© 2019 Science History Institute | Privacy Policy
This website uses cookies to perform analytics, improve functionality, and enhance user experience. You may set your browser to decline cookies, but some content on our site may not display properly. For more information, please visit our privacy policy.
I Accept