Mirrors and lenses


 

 

 

   

PLANE ANGULAR MIRRORS AND PARALLEL MIRRORS

 
 School
University (1),   Spano (2)
(2)

  Function
  To deduce the number of the images of the same subject formed by two angular mirrors.
Maker:
(1) Unsigned
(2) Officine Galileo - Florence
Price:
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L 190
Purchase date:
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1931

  Description
  If n is the number of the virtual images and a the angle between the two mirrors, we have n = 360/a - 1.
  The two plane mirrors, assembled on a brass frame can turn because they are hinged on a steel axis, supported by a vertical column.
  By unthreading the axis of the hinge, the two mirrors can be fixed vertically on the basis by four brass buttons, and so we have an apparatus with parallel mirrors with an infinite succession of images.
  A disk with one side red and the other green is supported by a metallic foot and is used as the object.

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CONVEX MIRROR

 
 School
  Spano

  Function
  To study the characteristics of convex mirrors.
Maker:
Officine Galileo - Florence
Price: L 250 Purchase date: 1931

  Description
  The mirror has a 20 cm diameter. The 50 cm focal distance is the best for normal optics experiments.
  The frame is made of a brass ring turning around a horizontal diameter, supported by a fork with changeable height, placed on a cast iron tripod, with a brass column raising and turning on the vertical axis.

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CONCAVE MIRROR

 
 School
  University

  Function
  To study the characteristics of concave mirrors.
Maker: Unsigned Price: L 45 Purchase date: Cat. 1882

  Description
  The mirror is fixed on a black wooden frame rotating on a horizontal diameter and it is sustained by a fork that is applied to pole raising from a wooden circular basis.

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PARABOLIC GLASS MIRRORS

 
 School
  Spano

  Function
 To study the characteristics of parabolic mirrors.
Maker:
Officine Galileo - Florence
Price: L 3750 Purchase date: 1931

  Description
  Mirror with a metallic frame turning around a horizontal diameter. The ensemble is sustained by a solid iron prismatic frame.

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CYLINDRICAL MIRROR

 
 School
  Spano

  Function
  To show the distortion of the image.
Maker:
Officine Galileo - Florence
Price: L 180 Purchase date: 1931

  Description
  The cylindrical reflecting glass surface is placed on a metallic frame; size 130 x 190 mm.

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BREWSTER’S KALEIDOSCOPE

 
 School
  Spano

  Function
  Toy that can supply new ideas for geometrical designs.
Maker:
Officine Galileo - Florence
Price: L 14 Purchase date: 1935

  Description
  It is made with a cardboard tube covered with imitation leather and brass trimmings at the ends. The case that holds the coloured objects is turning on its axis and the objects stand between two glasses, one of them polished with emery. The reflecting strips are black glasses 30 degree inclined. All the parts are fixed with screws and can be dismounted.

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UNIVERSAL LENS HOLDER

 
 School
  University (1);   Spano (2)
(1)

  Function
  For studies on geometrical optics.
Maker:
(1) Unsigned
(2) Officine Galileo - Florence
Price:
L 36 * 2
L 180
Purchase date:
1908
1931

  Description
  The above bar slides at friction; both can be fixed on the chosen position with set screws.
  In this way the lens centring is made quickly, as it regards only the height.
  The apparatus is used for lenses from 15 mm. to 100 mm.

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CONVEX LENSES WITH SUPPORT

 
 School
  University

  Function
  For studies on geometrical optics.
Maker: Unsigned Price: Purchase date: Cat. 1882

  Description
  The lenses of 75 mm diameter are mounted on brass feet with variable height applied on iron tripods.

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CONCAVE AND CONVEX LENSES

 
 School
  University

  Function
  For studies on geometrical optics.
Maker: Unsigned Price: L 30 * 2 Purchase date: Cat. 1882

  Description
  The lenses of 75 mm diameter are mounted on rings rotating on a horizontal diameter. The rings are sustained by forks with variable height placed on a circular basis. The ensemble in made of brass.

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SET OF SIX LENSES

 
 School
  University

  Function
  For studies on geometrical optics.
Maker:
Max Kohl - Chemnitz
Price: L 32.13 Purchase date: 1908

  Description
  A set of lenses of 65 mm diameter placed in a wooden box.
  All the types of spherical lenses are present.
  • For the converging lenses: the double-concave lens, planoconvex lens and the positive meniscus lens.
  • For the diverging lenses: the double-concave lens, the planoconcave lens and the negative meniscus lens.

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SET OF SIX LENSES WITH SUPPORT

 
 School
  Spano

  Function
  For studies on geometrical optics.
Maker:
Officine Galileo - Florence
Price: L 280 Purchase date: 1931

  Description
  A set of lenses, diameter 70 mm, are mounted on rings rotating on a horizontal diameter. The rings are sustained by fork with variable height placed on a circular basis. The ensemble in made of brass..
  All the types of spherical lenses are present.
  • For the converging lenses: the double-concave lens, planoconvex lens and the positive meniscus lens.
  • For the diverging lenses: the double-concave lens, the planoconcave lens and the negative meniscus lens.

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