Polarizing kaleidoscope, with slides

Made:: 1867-1868 in Norwich

maker:: John Huggins

Polarizing kaleidoscope with to rotatable slides, one polarising slide, one sample slide and a broken slide, John Huggins, Norwich, England, 1867-1868.

Details

Category:: Optics

Object Number:: 1935-576

Materials:: brass, paper (fibre product), glass and wood (unidentified)

type:: kaleidoscope

credit:: Burnell, P.H.

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Polarizing Kaleidoscope, 1867-1868.

Polarizing kaleidoscope and one frame for stage by John Huggins, Norwich, England, unsigned, 1867-1868

Measurements:: overall: 450 mm x 200 mm x 230 mm, , 1.76kg

Materials:: metal , brass (copper, zinc alloy) , mahogany (wood) , glass , selenite , textile , passe partout and lead

Object Number:: 1935-576 Pt1

type:: polarizing kaleidoscope

Image ©: The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Specimen slides for Polarizing Kaleidoscope, 1867-1868.

Two round rotatable hollow slides in wooden frames with turning handles, the middles of the slides contain glass and plastic flat irregualr shapes, from a polarizing kaleidoscope by John Huggins, Norwich, 1987-1868

Measurements:: overall: 12 mm x 166 mm x 98 mm, .312kg

Materials:: wood (unidentified) , brass (copper, zinc alloy) , glass and plastic (unidentified)

Object Number:: 1935-576 Pt2

type:: component - object , kaleidoscope and sample holder

Rotatable slide in wooden frame with turning handle

Materials:: wood (unidentified)

Object Number:: 1935-576 pt2/1

type:: rotatable slide

Image ©: The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Part of:: 1935-576 Pt2

Rotatable slide in wooden frame with turning handle

Materials:: wood (unidentified)

Object Number:: 1935-576 pt2/2

type:: rotatable slide

Part of:: 1935-576 Pt2

Specimen slides for Polarizing Kaleidoscope, 1867-1868.

One of two two slides of specimens, non-rotatable, from a polarizing kaleidoscope by John Huggins, Norwich, 1987-1868

Measurements:: overall: 173 mm x 83 mm x 5 mm, , .155kg

Materials:: glass , mica and textile

Object Number:: 1935-576 Pt3

type:: kaleidoscope specimen slides

Specimen slides for Polarizing Kaleidoscope, 1867-1868.

Passepartout glass slide containing five specimens of polarizing material with a wooden specimen slide and a broken detatched polarizing plate, all from a polarizing kaleidoscope by John Huggins, Norwich, 1987-1868