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Box of 56 Lantern Slides Belonging to Frederick Addey: History of Science Box 9

Inventory Number 11608


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.11608

Item type
Object
Primary inscriptions
Labelled on end of box: 'History of Science. 9.'
Object type
Lantern slide
Inventory No
11608

Description

Wooden box (home-made). Contains 56 3¼-inch square glass lantern slides for Frederick Addey's lectures on the history of science, with section headings Royal Society, Royal Society Portraits, and Physics Portraits. The Royal Society portrait slides include Samuel Pepys, Christopher Wren and Robert Hoyle. The "Physics" portrait slides include Einstein, Christian Huyghens, John Tyndall, John Dolland, Monsieur and Madame Curie and Lord Rutherford.