The Display Cabinet
This octagonal cabinet of wood and glass dating from around 1900 originally housed the early...
Top Cabinet
In the display area at the top of the structure are some of the prisms and diffusion gratings used...
Section 1 – Pallasite Meteorite, Imilac
The illuminated slab of iron and olivine is the 408 g pallasite meteorite, Imilac, recovered 1822...
Section 2 – Iron Meteorite, Tamarugal
Tamarugal, IIIAB, 8.4 kg. This is a large slice of a 320 kg iron meteorite found in Tarapaca,...
Section 3 – Stony Meteorite, Farmington
Farmington L5, 2.4 kg. This is an unusually large example of a stony meteorite, an “ordinary...
Section 4 – Preparing the Samples
The first task in cataloguing the spectra of pure samples was to prepare the samples themselves....
Section 5 – Spectra Plates
The spectra were photographed on glass plates, as seen here. Note the relatively small size of the...
Section 6 – Spectra Catalog
The plates were enlarged and printed on photographic paper; each catalog was custom made in the...
Section 7 – Prisms
Shown here are a number of objects, including prisms used in the Spectra Lab and a glass trophy...
Section 8 – Plates
The spectra of pure metals can be compared against the spectra of stars. In this lightbox one sees...