Part of Melloni's bench

Brass bar fixed to a base of mahogany wood.
It is a simple optical bench used by Melloni to study the laws of the distribution of radiating heat.
Functioning:
On the bar could be set various components, including lenses, light and heat sources, thermoelectric piles etc. It is used for experiments on radiation, refraction, absorption and reflection of heat.
Macedonio Melloni was a famous Italian physicist of the early nineteenth century.

See also:
http://www.museodifisica.unina.it/eng_coll_melloni.htm#

The entire apparatus as kept at the Museum of Physics in Naple (courtesy Museo di Fisica)

Data

Inventory Number: 

THE02

Date: 

1850 (c.)

Dimensions: 

Length : 97cm, Height : 10cm

Materials: 

Brass, mahogany wood

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