tripod stand and frame for demonstration
Date1893-1912
Inventory Number1996-1-0427
ClassificationDemonstration Apparatus
Subject
Maker
Queen & Company
1893 - 1912
Cultural Region
Place of Origin
Dimensions122.6 × 30.5 × 33.7 cm (48 1/4 × 12 × 13 1/4 in.)
Material
DescriptionThe apparatus is supported on a three-cornered flat wooden base on three low wooden feet. Mounted on the top face of the base, in each corner, is a metal adjustment screw with a knurled edge.
Rising from a rectangular brass plate mounted on the base are a pair of brass rods, connected at the top with a horizontal bar, also featuring a knurled-edge adjustment screw. At the base of the rod assembly is a brass plate inscribed in script, "Louis Queen & Comp. Philadelphia."
A metal support attached at two points to the base connects to the pair of brass rods at an angle about halfway up, bracing them in place with a horizontal bar.
Rising from a rectangular brass plate mounted on the base are a pair of brass rods, connected at the top with a horizontal bar, also featuring a knurled-edge adjustment screw. At the base of the rod assembly is a brass plate inscribed in script, "Louis Queen & Comp. Philadelphia."
A metal support attached at two points to the base connects to the pair of brass rods at an angle about halfway up, bracing them in place with a horizontal bar.
Signedengraved on plaque in script: Jos(?) Queen / & Comp. / Philadelphia
FunctionDemonstration apparatus of unknown specific use.
Richard W. Thomas
Date: circa 1861
Accessories: bottle and beaker (1998-1-1634a); hydrometer and manual (1998-1-1634b)
Object number: 1998-1-1634
Buff & Buff Manufacturing Company
Date: circa 1905
Accessories: wood case; leather case; right-angle prism; plumb bob; oil flask; tripod (5174b)
Object number: 5174a
American
Date: circa 1901
Accessories: watchcase receiver
Object number: 1990-1-0001
Laboratoire de Physique, Faculté Libre de Lille
Date: circa 1885
Object number: DW0092
Rudolf Jung
Date: circa 1894
Accessories: leatherette covered case (1916b); microtome knife in case (1916c)
Object number: 1916a
J. H. Bunnell & Company
Date: late 19th-early 20th Century
Object number: 1998-1-1695
W. Watson & Sons Ltd.
Date: circa 1885
Accessories: oculars (2 pairs): B and D; objectives in marked canisters (4): 1/4, 1/2, 1, 3 inches; condenser with iris diaphragm; rotating wheel diaphragm; iris diaphragm; set of 4 disk diaphragms in brass box; triple nosepiece; live box; prisms for Wenham binocular system (2); stage for simple microscope with rotating wheel diaphragm; vulcanite stage; spare knobs (2); parts box; case
Object number: 1249
Date: 1890-1930
Object number: RS1425a