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Box of 84 Lantern Slides Belonging to Frederick Addey: History of Science Box 3

Inventory Number 11602


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.11602

Item type
Object
Primary inscriptions
Labelled on end of box: 'History of Science. 3.'
Object type
Lantern slide
Inventory No
11602

Description

Wooden box (home-made). Contains 84 3¼-inch square glass lantern slides for Frederick Addey's lectures on the history of science, with section headings: Light, Microscope, and Spectroscope. The latter section includes some coloured diagrams, 2 hand-painted spectra by Newton & Co., and a ?hand-coloured rainbow photograph.