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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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  • 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
  • Scientific apparatus and instruments

    Cary Model 11MS Recording Spectrophotometer

    • 1947 (Introduced)
    • Manufacturer Applied Physics Corporation
    • Subject Varian, Inc., Spectrophotometer, Applied Physics Corporation
  • 2 items
    Scientific apparatus and instruments

    Oil-Immersion Microscope

    • Circa 1946

    A: Microscope
    Ernst Leitz oil-immersion microscope; instrument rests on wishbone-shaped base with a single beam extending from the center before splitting into two sections: an arm supporting the telescope and…

    • Manufacturer Ernst Leitz (Firm)
    • Subject Microscopes, Ernst Leitz (Firm)
  • 5 items
    Scientific apparatus and instruments

    Bausch & Lomb Duboscq Type Colorimeter

    • 1940s

    A: Cast iron base attached to a sloping cast iron upright supporting the reader, prisms, sample cups, plungers, and a mechanism for raising and lowering the sample cups; two metal knobs control the height of the sample…

    • Manufacturer Bausch & Lomb Optical Company
    • Subject Bausch & Lomb Optical Company, Colorimetry--Instruments, Colorimetry
  • 2 items
    Scientific apparatus and instruments

    Bausch & Lomb Abbe Refractometer

    • 1937 – 1941

    A: Refractometer
    Instrument has round base with black finish; on the base is a double-sided circular glass mirror mounted to allow full rotation; a black pillar supports the prism alidade, the black brass cylindrical…

    • Manufacturer Bausch & Lomb Optical Company
    • Subject Bausch & Lomb Optical Company, Refractometers, Optics
  • Scientific apparatus and instruments, Electronics

    Precision Condenser Type 722-N

    • After 1944

    Wooden box with no lid; black painted metal instrument panel on top; engraved writing on top left corner; two metal knobs projecting from panel on upper right side most likely for running electrical current;…

    • Manufacturer General Radio Company
    • Subject Capacitors, General Radio Company

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