Experimental apparatus
Date
1853
Creator
Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778 - 1868, British) , British Lord Chancellor
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Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 337mm
width (painting): 305mm
width (painting): 305mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Equipment for experiments on light, including two mounted prisms and a spirit lamp. Interference fringes were observed at the point E-E.
Illustration from the manuscript version of the paper “Further experiments and observations on the properties of light” by Henry Brougham, in Abstracts of the papers communicated to the Royal Society of London, vol.6 (1850-1854), pp.312-319.
Not signed or captioned.
Lord Brougham was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1803.
Illustration from the manuscript version of the paper “Further experiments and observations on the properties of light” by Henry Brougham, in Abstracts of the papers communicated to the Royal Society of London, vol.6 (1850-1854), pp.312-319.
Not signed or captioned.
Lord Brougham was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1803.
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