Spectrum comparator

Made:: 1922 in London

maker:: Adam Hilger Limited

Spectrum comparator, with travelling micrometer microscope by Adam Hilger Ltd., London, serial No.L1303/22216, dated 1922. Modified for measurement of circular photographic plates and thought to have been used at the University Observatory, Oxford for solar image measurements.

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Category:: Astronomy

Object Number:: 2001-697

Materials:: steel, brass, plastic, glass, aluminium and complete

Measurements:: overall (estimate): 250 x 270 x 140 mm

type:: spectrocomparator - astronomical

credit:: University of Oxford (Dept of Physics)

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