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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.

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    Brace Spectrophotometer

    • Part of Instruments of Precision Laboratory Apparatus, M-L Catalog
    • 1911

    "The instrument is designed after suggestions from Prof. D. B. Brace, for whom a number of these instruments were built."

    • Creator Of Work Wm. Gaertner & Company
    • Subject Brace, D. B. (De Witt Bristol), 1859-1905, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Spectrophotometer, Laboratories--Equipment and supplies, Measuring instruments
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    Melloni's Apparatus

    • Part of Instruments of Precision Laboratory Apparatus, M-L Catalog
    • 1911

    "For studying the reflection, refraction, absorption and polarization of radiant heat."

    • Creator Of Work Wm. Gaertner & Company
    • Subject Scientific apparatus and instruments, Laboratories--Equipment and supplies, Measuring instruments
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    Spectrometers with Polarizing Attachment and Camera Attachment

    • Part of Instruments of Precision Laboratory Apparatus, M-L Catalog
    • 1911

    Top figure is a laboratory spectrometer with a polarizing attachment. Lower figure is a spectrometer with a third arm and camera attachment.

    • Creator Of Work Wm. Gaertner & Company
    • Subject Spectrometer, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Laboratories--Equipment and supplies, Measuring instruments
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    Ives Duplex Diffraction Spectroscope

    • Part of Instruments of Precision Laboratory Apparatus, M-L Catalog
    • 1911

    "This spectroscope will show the first order of spectrum all at once across the field of the eyepiece."

    • Creator Of Work Wm. Gaertner & Company
    • Subject Scientific apparatus and instruments, Laboratories--Equipment and supplies, Spectroscope, Measuring instruments
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    Heliostats

    • Part of Instruments of Precision Laboratory Apparatus, M-L Catalog
    • 1911

    Top figure is a Foucault heliostat, which reflects the rays of the sun in a horizontal direction. Bottom figure is a two-mirror heliostat, where the second mirror allows the path of the light beam to be thrown in any…

    • Creator Of Work Wm. Gaertner & Company
    • Subject Scientific apparatus and instruments, Heliostat, Laboratories--Equipment and supplies, Measuring instruments
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    Littrow Spectroscope

    • Part of Instruments of Precision Laboratory Apparatus, M-L Catalog
    • 1911

    "The collimators and observing telescopes have apertures of 50mm., and focus by rack and pinion. Two 60 degree prisms of heavy flint glass and of 70mm. side are furnished with the instrument. The mirror may be used in…

    • Creator Of Work Wm. Gaertner & Company
    • Subject Scientific apparatus and instruments, Laboratories--Equipment and supplies, Spectroscope, Measuring instruments
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    Small Comparator

    • Part of Instruments of Precision Laboratory Apparatus, M-L Catalog
    • 1911

    An "instrument intended for measuring spectra photographs, gratings, divided scales, or such objects which can be focused by the microscope and will allow rapid measurements of the highest possible accuracy." The design…

    • Creator Of Work Wm. Gaertner & Company
    • Subject Scientific apparatus and instruments, Microscopes, Laboratories--Equipment and supplies, Measuring instruments

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