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parabolic mirror
parabolic mirror

parabolic mirror

Date1900 - 1950
Inventory Number2007-1-0049
ClassificationMirror
Subject
    Place of Origin
      Dimensions18.3 × 15.3 × 5.5 cm (7 3/16 × 6 × 2 3/16 in.)
      box: 7.6 × 20 × 19.1 cm (3 × 7 7/8 × 7 1/2 in.)
      Material
        DescriptionThe parabolic mirror is held by a steel frame meant to stand upright. The mirror was most likely meant to be used on an optical bench. Hand-written inscription made with a pen has been mostly erased. The surface of the mirror looks like it was silvered.

        The letter "H" (for Harvard) has been painted in orange on the frame.
        Signedunsigned
        FunctionWas used to reflect light from a source so the light beams were all parallels to each other.

        See how such a mirror was used by Jules Duboscq toward the end of the nineteenth century, here.
        part of parabolic mirror
        American
        Date: 1890-1930
        Object number: 1997-1-0051
        parabolic mirror
        Bausch & Lomb Optical Company
        Date: 1870-1920
        Object number: 1997-1-0044a
        parabolic mirror
        Bausch & Lomb Optical Company
        Date: 1870-1920
        Object number: 1997-1-0044b
        concave mirror holder
        American
        Date: 1910 - 1950
        Object number: 2007-1-0051b
        mirror for Jamin-type interferometer
        Louis Jules Duboscq
        Date: 1860-1880
        Object number: 1996-1-0699c
        black mirror for optical bench
        American
        Date: 1950-1970
        Object number: 2007-1-0036
        mirror on stand
        Wilmer C. Anderson
        Date: 1937-1941
        Accessories: cover is stored separately
        Object number: 1996-1-0677
        10-inch optical flat
        American
        Date: circa 1900
        Object number: 1997-1-0064
        The first image in this series represents a giant, double-plate electrostatic generator, which …
        John Cuthbertson
        Date: 1770-1815
        Accessories: brown storage box, descriptive tag, thin strip of paper in box with the inscription "lucernal microscope" in David P. Wheatland's handwriting (which refers to figs. 47-48 and 51 in this series), page from the book "Old Science and Medicine" with a photographic copy of the first print from this series, entitled "The Large Electric Machine at Haarlem."
        Object number: 1998-1-1087
        6-inch, f/8 concave telescope mirror
        American
        Date: circa 1960
        Accessories: dust cover
        Object number: 1997-1-0043
        mirror on stand
        Wilmer C. Anderson
        Date: 1937-1941
        Object number: 1996-1-0664
        mirror
        Bausch & Lomb Optical Company
        Date: circa 1900
        Accessories: none.
        Object number: WJ0244