Accession No

1390

Brief Description

spectrophotometer, by Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company, English, 1886

Origin

England; Cambridge

Maker

Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company

Class

optical

Earliest Date

1886

Latest Date

1886

Inscription Date

1886

Material

wood (cork, 1 other); metal (brass, iron, oxidized brass); glass

Dimensions

length 725mm; breadth 360mm; height 280mm

Special Collection

Provenance

Transferred from the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Inscription

‘CAMBRIDGE SCIENTIFIC
INSTRUMENT COMPANY
1886’ (brass plaque on top)

Description Notes

Red-painted tribrarch iron stand supports brass column on which sits a black-painted wooden box with a hinged lid. Box contains an arrangement of lenses, prisms and a mirror. Brass tubes carrying polarising prisms attached to one end and one side of box. The other end carries eyepiece with screw-fit eye-end which carries pointer moving over dial divided 0 - [360]˚ numbered by 10 subdivided to 1. Angle of mirror adjusted by brass rod with index moving over calibrated scale at eye-end.

Condition good; complete

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