Name/Title
Apparatus to show Newton's RingsEntry/Object ID
2013.4.36Description
- The smaller case contains 12 slides with 4 circular glass areas, each measures 3.5" in length. Only one of the slides is labelled and it reads "Mulberry".
- The larger upright case contains 6 slides with 1 circular glass area, each measures 4" in length. Several of these are labelled: Calci Spar, Topaz, Quartz, Nitre, Borax, Arragonite.
- The box with a lid contains 29 green glass slides that have French hand-writing on them, as well as 6 other slides. The lid of the box has a piece of paper in it which appears to contain a listing of the slides in French. In the bottom is a label which reads as follows:
McALLISTER & CO.
48 Walnut Street, Philadelphia,
Have constantly for sale Cases of
Mathematical Instruments
For ----- wholesale Reatil
Also dividers, -----, scales, parallel -----
Ivo----, -----, etc. seperate from -----.Collection
Moosnick Museum - Scientific Apparatus