60° quartz prism
Date1912
Inventory Number1998-1-1386
ClassificationPrism
Subject
Maker
German
?
Maker
Agfa
founded 1867
Owner
Hans Zinnser
1878 - 1940
Associate Name
John Howard Mueller
1891 - 1954
Owner
Theodore Lyman IV
1874 - 1954
User
Harvard Medical School
founded 1782
User
Department of Physics, Harvard University
founded 1884
Cultural Region
Dimensionsprism: 4.3 × 3.2 × 3.2 cm (1 11/16 × 1 1/4 × 1 1/4 in.)
box: 5.8 × 10.7 × 7.9 cm (2 5/16 × 4 3/16 × 3 1/8 in.)
box: 5.8 × 10.7 × 7.9 cm (2 5/16 × 4 3/16 × 3 1/8 in.)
Material
DescriptionEquiangular quartz prism with top, bottom, and rear face painted a matte black. Stored in cotton batting in a cardboard box that once held an Agfa photographic flash lamp. There are three red-rimmed labels stuck to the box lid.
Three scraps of paper with messages are in the box:
1) note to Theodore Lyman on torn white paper, dated July 9, 1948:
July 9. 48
Prof. Lyman:
These prisms were used at the Med.
School for an u-v microscope (1912).
They were given to the Phys. Laboratory
as the microscope was dismantled.
J. J.
2) white scrap of paper:
see letter of
Dr. J. H. Mueller*
H. Medical School
Nov. 14 / 45
*Quartz
3) orange scrap of paper:
check Nov / 45
May 20 / 42
1 Qtz prism
To Fred Schueler
for demonstration
Three scraps of paper with messages are in the box:
1) note to Theodore Lyman on torn white paper, dated July 9, 1948:
July 9. 48
Prof. Lyman:
These prisms were used at the Med.
School for an u-v microscope (1912).
They were given to the Phys. Laboratory
as the microscope was dismantled.
J. J.
2) white scrap of paper:
see letter of
Dr. J. H. Mueller*
H. Medical School
Nov. 14 / 45
*Quartz
3) orange scrap of paper:
check Nov / 45
May 20 / 42
1 Qtz prism
To Fred Schueler
for demonstration
Signedunsigned
Inscribedin pencil on rear face of prism: Qtz / Property of / H. Medical Sch / Dr Zinsser
on label on box: 2 Qtz Prisms / H. Medical School / Feb. 1929
on label on box: Quartz / Prisms / For / large Spectroscope
on label on box: Care / Quartz / Prisms
Historical Attributes
American
Date: circa 1914
Accessories: mounting plates and pads
Object number: 1998-1-1389
Date: 1890-1930
Object number: RS0501
American
Date: circa 1948
Object number: WJ1184
Date: 1890-1930
Object number: RS0528
Harvard College Observatory
Date: circa 1931
Object number: 1996-1-0539
Columbia Phonograph Company
Date: circa 1904
Accessories: hollow, cylindrical, paper case
Object number: 8507
Carl Zeiss, Optische Werkstätte, Jena
Date: 1881-1891
Accessories: box
Object number: 1990-2-0008
American
Date: 1900-1925
Accessories: none
Object number: 1998-1-1398b