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4 60° prisms
4 60° prisms

4 60° prisms

Date1900-1950
Inventory Number2007-1-0411
ClassificationPrism
Subject
    Maker American
    User Harvard College founded 1636
    Cultural Region
      DimensionsLargest: 2.5 × 1.9 × 1.6 cm (1 × 3/4 × 5/8 in.)
      Material
        DescriptionAn assortment of four equiangular prisms. Each has an orange dot from the Harvard Optics Lab. There are penciled notations in the corners of the top face of three of them. The other has an orange "16."
        Signedunsigned
        ProvenanceFrom the Harvard College Optics Lab, 1967.
        4 rectangular prisms
        4 rectangular prisms
        American
        Date: 1900-1950
        Object number: 2007-1-0412
        9 assorted right-angle prisms
        9 assorted right-angle prisms
        American
        Date: 1900-1950
        Object number: 1998-1-0392
        cemented pair of 30°-60°90° prisms with silvered stripe
        cemented pair of 30°-60°90° prisms with silvered stripe
        American
        Date: 1900-1930
        Object number: 2007-1-0421
        set of mounted 60° glass prisms
        set of mounted 60° glass prisms
        Benjamin Martin
        Date: 1765
        Object number: 0085
        120° prism
        120° prism
        American
        Date: 1900-1950
        Object number: 2007-1-0423
        60° quartz prism
        60° quartz prism
        German
        Date: 1912
        Object number: 1998-1-1386
        hinged pair of 60° prisms
        hinged pair of 60° prisms
        Benjamin Martin
        Date: 1765
        Object number: 0085c
        boxed set of prisms and a lens
        boxed set of prisms and a lens
        French
        Date: circa 1875
        Object number: 1998-1-0463
        pair of 60° equiangular prisms
        pair of 60° equiangular prisms
        Edmund Scientific Corporation
        Date: mid 20th Century
        Object number: 1998-1-0336
        box with 3 prisms
        box with 3 prisms
        Louis Jules Duboscq
        Date: 1850-1875
        Accessories: three prisms, smallest in cardboard box
        Object number: 1998-1-0410
        4 equilateral prisms
        4 equilateral prisms
        John A. Brashear
        Date: circa 1890
        Object number: 1997-1-1700
        pair of hinged prisms of different glass
        pair of hinged prisms of different glass
        French
        Date: 1850-1875
        Object number: 1998-1-1212b