TY - JOUR
AB - A SPECIAL exhibition dealing with optical phenomena and optical instruments will be opened at the Science Museum on November 19, and will remain on view until the middle of February, 1933. A special feature of the exhibition will be a number of demonstrations and experiments operable by visitors. These will illustrate reflection, refraction, dispersion, interference, diffraction, and polarisation of light as well as the working of simple optical instruments such as the telescope and microscope. They should be of particular interest to students, especially to those who have not the facilities for performing such experiments themselves. Other demonstrations will include a large projection microscope designed for the examination of metals in large pieces, a rangefinder specially adapted to take short ranges in the Museum, a home cinematograph projector using standard size film, a large ophthalmoscope for examination of the human eye and a modern epidiascope. The historical development of various optical instruments will be illustrated by examples selected from the Museum collections, and current practice in optical instrument manufacture will be further represented by a selection of modern instruments lent by various firms especially for the exhibition.
TI - Optical Apparatus at the Science Museum
JF - Nature
DO - 10.1038/130771b0
DA - 1932-11-19
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/optical-apparatus-at-the-science-museum-EsrrdOoGff
SP - 771
EP - 771
VL - 130
IS - 3290
DP - DeepDyve
ER -