Polarization demonstration material

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Polarization demonstration material associated with Silvanus P. Thompson, in cardboard box with handwritten label (17 items) (red glass disc and mounted glass lens missing)

Cork-mounted Savart's bands in white sapphire

1912

Grey tourmaline on glass disc

Blue and brown tourmalines in brass mounts

Wood mounted selenite wedge

Quartz disc cut at 28 1/2 degrees to axis

Wood mounted left-polarized quartz

Quartz hexagon

Two card mounted quartz sections

Two quartz half-discs

Quartz disc cut normal to axis

Two oval quartz lenses

Glass-ebonite holder for quartz wedges

Wood ring holder for biquartz

Circular wood box

Reflecting analyser

Glass meniscus

Card disc for tourmaline

Details

Category:: Optics

Object Number:: 1986-1684

type:: demonstration material

credit:: Podmore, N.

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