Demonstration polariscope with red leather case.

Made:: 1830-1880 in United Kingdom

Demonstration polariscope, rosewood and ivory frame and handle a with rotating mount containing six mineral crystals samples and oval red leather and wood case with velvet and silk lining, unsigned, British, 1830-1880. Once the property of Sylvanus P Thompson (1851-1916), professor of physics at the City and Guilds Technical College in Finsbury, England.

Details

Category:: Optics

Object Number:: 1982-1549

Materials:: rosewood, ivory, brass (copper, zinc alloy), wood (unidentified), vevet and silk

Measurements:: overall (case & polariscope): 45 mm x 155 mm x 65 mm, W. 0.0127kg

type:: polariscope, optical demonstration equipment and instrument case

credit:: Aggs, G.

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Demonstration polariscope with six mineral crystals in rotating mount.

Demonstration polariscope, rosewood and ivory frame and handle a with rotating mount containing six mineral crystals samples, unsigned, British, 1830-1880. Once the property of Sylvanus P Thompson (1851-1916), professor of physics at the City and Guilds Technical College in Finsbury, England.

Measurements:: overall : 45 mm x 155 mm x 65 mm,

Materials:: rosewood , ivory and brass (copper, zinc alloy)

Object Number:: 1982-1549/1

type:: polariscope and optical demonstration equipment

Leather case for demonstration polariscope.

Oval red leather and wood case with velvet and silk lining for demonstration polariscope, unsigned, British, 1830-1880. Once the property of Sylvanus P Thompson (1851-1916), professor of physics at the City and Guilds Technical College in Finsbury, England.