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Antique Spectrometer

Collection — Object: 1

Identifier: ANSP-2010-100-Artifact

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This collection contains one large wooden box with handle and one antique spectrometer with a metal base. Two scopes are attached to the spectrometer and a crystal sits in the center of the instrument. A Spectrometer is an instrument used to measure properties of light over a specific portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, typically used in spectroscopic analysis to identify materials

Dates: 19th Century

Found in: Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University

Antique Spectrometer

Collection — Object: 1

Identifier: ANSP-2010-097-Artifact

Scope and Contents

An instrument used to measure properties of light over a specific portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, typically used in spectroscopic analysis to identify materials. This antique spectrometer has two scopes, one attached and one loose. There is also no crystal to help reflect light. The spectrometer sits on a wooden base. The loose scope is attached to the wooden base.

Dates: 19th Century

Found in: Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University

Commemorative Tee-Shirt

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: ANSP-2010-087-Artifact

Scope and Contents This commemorative tee-shirt is from the Kansas Academy of Science for their 133 Annual Meeting on April 7, 2001 at the University of Kansas. The shirt was given out to participants of the Paleontology Symposium: Shells, Bones, and Stones". The top of the white shirt reads: "Kansas Paleontology 1868-2001: In their Footsteps". Five men are pictured on the front of the shirt, from left to right: E.D Cope; O.C Marsh; S.W Williston; C.H Sternberg; and G.F Sternberg. The tee-shirt is a size large...

Dates: 4/7/2001

Found in: Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University

Ruth Patrick Papers

Collection

Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0974

Overview Born in Topeka, Kansas, in 1907, Dr. Ruth Myrtle Patrick spent most of her childhood in Kansas City, Missouri. Her interest in the natural sciences was shaped by her father's passion for the natural world. Her long association with the Academy of Natural Sciences began in 1933 as a volunteer. By 1937 she was curator of the Academy's Leidy Microscopical Collection and involved in the consolidation and expansion of the Academy’s diatom herbarium, but not on the Academy payroll until the early...

Dates: 1908 - 2012; Majority of material found within 1960 - 1990

Found in: Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University

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