Credit: © The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.10781

    Spectroscope

    Date
    1863
    Creator
    Frank Mason Good (British) , Photographer
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 86mm
    width (print): 122mm
    height (mount): 240mm
    width (mount): 342mm
    Subject
    Physics
       > Optics
    Content object
    Description
    Spectroscope constructed by Spencer, Browning and Company, instrument-makers of London, for John Peter Gassiot.

    Unpublished plate 1 illustration from the manuscript version of the paper “On spectrum analysis with a description of a large spectroscope having nine prisms and achromatic telescopes of two feet focal length” by John Peter Gassiot. This was abstracted in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, vol.12 (1862-1863), pp.536-538.

    A printed stamp has been pasted to the reverse: “Photographed BY F.M.GOOD 47, MINORIES, London.”

    John Peter Gassiot (1797-1877), British electrician, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1840.
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