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1 | Yerkes Historic Instrument Listing | |||||||
2 | Nr. | Photo | Description | Location | ||||
3 | 1 | Spectrograph (brass). Spectrograph was used on the Northwestern University's Dearborn Observatory 18.5-inch telescope . My notes from a telephone conversation with John Briggs (about 2008) are that he obtained it from Dr. Edward Liebhardt, president of a former diffraction grating manufacturing company in Woodstock, IL (WO) | Left hallway b/4 plate vault. | |||||
4 | 2 | Zeiss UV camera. See Astrophysical Journal, 36, 169-227 (1912) | Left hallway b/4 plate vault | |||||
5 | 3 | Filar Micrometer - Warner & Swasey | Left hallway b/4 plate vault | |||||
6 | 4 | Spectrograph (aluminum) WWM used betw. 1937 and 1954 (cit?) to determine spiral nature of the MW. Don Osterbrock, et al helped. | Left hallway b/4 plate vault | |||||
7 | 5 | Reflecting telescope (by J. Van Der Bildt, Jr.), 18th century, Franeker, Holland... NOPE it's a reflector NEED TO CHECK THIS BY LOOKING AT INSTRUMENT | Right hallway b/4 plate vault | |||||
8 | 6 | Reflecting telescope - hand held, Paris, 1754. REFLECTING OR RERACTING? (WO) | Right hallway b/4 plate vault | |||||
9 | 7 | Navigator's sextant. LOOKS MORE LIKE A SURVEYOR'S TRANSIT (WO) | Right hallway b/4 plate vault | |||||
10 | 8 | Small filar micrometer (Carl Zeiss Nr 9734) plus eye pieces | Right hallway b/4 plate vault | |||||
17 | 9 | Filar micrometer | Right hallway b/4 plate vault | |||||
18 | 10 | Filar micrometer, Warner and Swasey | Right hallway b/4 plate vault | |||||
19 | 11 | Speed Graphic, Graphex camera owned by WW Morgan | Quester Museum | |||||
20 | 12 | Amateur astronomer Gordon Garcia's, who wants it back. He will pick up and swap with a realistic movie prop and a new mount with wider footpad. EDSCORP, Barrington, NJ - 3" Refracting telescope w/mount | Quester Museum | |||||
21 | 13 | 5" Refracting telescope (less objective lens) | Quester Museum | |||||
22 | 14 | Celestial sphere | Quester Museum | |||||
23 | 15 | Clock (Seth Thomas mantle clock) | Quester Museum | |||||
24 | 16 | Clock (E. Howard) Sidereal time clock | Right hallway b/4 plate vault | |||||
25 | 17 | Clock (Riefler #236) 24 hour | Right hallway b/4 plate vault | |||||
26 | 18 | PDS Microdensitometer (two units). Perkin - Elmer | Plate vault - 1st floor | |||||
27 | 19 | Small XY measuring engine, David W. Mann Co., #829A49 | Plate vault - 1st floor | |||||
28 | 20 | Microscope, Bausch & Lomb | Plate vault - 2nd floor | |||||
29 | 21 | Spectra Comparator, Boller & Chivens | Plate vault - 2nd floor | |||||
30 | 22 | Copy stand for Polaroid camera which, given we cannot get Polaroid film, and given there's nothing else we can use it for, is just not worth holding on to ,says Dreiser. | Plate vault - 2nd floor | |||||
31 | 23 | Spectrograph - 3 foot, aluminum | Room off 2nd floor plate vault | |||||
32 | 24 | Spectra plate measuring engine | Room off 2nd floor plate vault | |||||
33 | 25 | Plate camera for 40-inch telescope. Takes 8 x 10-inch plates and has mechanism for rotating sector. | Room off 2nd floor plate vault | |||||
34 | 26 | Photoelectric photometer w/cold box | Room off 2nd floor plate vault | |||||
35 | 27 | Photomultiplier tube & apparatus | Room off 2nd floor plate vault | |||||
36 | 28 | ?? | Upstairs hallway - on slate optical bench | |||||
37 | 29 | Adding machine - G.E. | Upstairs hallway - on slate optical bench | |||||
38 | 30 | DREISER got this Dual mode slide duplicator, Beseler co. and wants it if no one else does. It is absolutely obsolete. | Room off upstairs optical bench hallway | |||||
39 | 31 | photographic plate camera w/16" diameter mounting plate | Room off upstairs optical bench hallway | |||||
40 | 32 | device for calibration of spectral plates | Room off upstairs optical bench hallway | |||||
41 | 33 | Sensitometer - calibration spots to calibrate density on photographic plates | Room off upstairs optical bench hallway = 41-inch telescope darkroom. | |||||
42 | 34 | Pendulum Clock. E. Howard and Company, Boston | Rotunda | |||||
43 | 35 | camera w/focal reducer - uses 3-1/4x4-1/4 plates | 2nd floor beneath 41" | |||||
44 | 36 | ?? | 2nd floor beneath 41" | |||||
45 | 37 | equatorial mount. For coelstat projection of sun down optical bench | on slate optical bench near 24" stairs | |||||
46 | 38 | Hemisphere used by Kuiper and colleagues for making rectified moon atlas (WHO). See Lynne- lzielinski@comcast.net | stacks | |||||
47 | 39 | Meinel spectrograph | 41" dome - on platform | |||||
48 | 40 | Photoelectric photometer | 24" dome (perimeter) | |||||
49 | 41 | Boro Spotz mounting box w/viewer for spectrograph or photometer - See Bob Spotz | office under 41" dome | |||||
50 | 42 | ?? See Al Harper | basement - Rm 43 | |||||
51 | 43 | Polarimeter? See Al Harper | basement - Rm 43 | |||||
52 | 44 | ?? See Al Harper | basement - Rm 43 | |||||
53 | 45 | Reflector telescope see Al Harper | basement - Rm 43 | |||||
54 | 46 | ?? See Bob Spotz | basement - Rm 31 | |||||
55 | 47 | Comparitor | basement - Rm 31 | |||||
56 | 48 | ?? See Lou Hobbs | basement beneath 41" | |||||
57 | 49 | Eyepiece adapter for 40" | metal cabinet on 40" floor | |||||
58 | 50 | ?? Apparatus with 2 motors and 2 D batteries | metal cabinet on 40" floor | |||||
59 | 51 | ?? | metal cabinet on 40" floor | |||||
60 | 52 | ?? | metal cabinet on 40" floor | |||||
61 | 53 | wooden eyepiece case | metal cabinet on 40" floor | |||||
62 | 54 | Gitter = course grating in wooden case | metal cabinet on 40" floor | |||||
63 | 55 | Sectors for reducing magnitude of bright star in 40-inch telesccope photographic astrometry programs | metal cabinet on 40" floor | |||||
64 | 56 | ?? Probably an eyepiece holder adapter (for 40-inch?) WO | metal cabinet on 40" floor | |||||
65 | 57 | The Astrogon. Made and given to Yerkes by Henry H. Porter 1926. See Popular Astronomy, Vol. 35, p.88-114, 1927 for a description (WO). Purpose - to translate coordinates | Library | |||||
66 | 58 | Sunspot sphere?? Kuiper projection sphere for moon atlas? | Library | |||||
67 | 59 | Transit telescope. Used for determining sidereal time or geographic coordinates. | Lake Geneva Museum | |||||
68 | 60 | Brass eyepiece (for 40"?) | Jim Gee office | |||||
69 | 61 | ?? | Jim Gee office | |||||
70 | 62 | ?? | Jim Gee office | |||||
71 | 63 | Prism spectrograph | Jim Gee office | |||||
72 | 64 | Dreiser says, optics from a no longer exstant copy camera made by Robertson Photo-Mechanix, Inc., Goerz 19 IN. | Jim Gee office | |||||
73 | 65 | concave mirror - approx 10" | Jim Gee office | |||||
74 | 66 | ?? | Jim Gee office | |||||
75 | 67 | ?? | Jim Gee office | |||||
76 | 68 | Dichroic/Tertiary Mirror - coated at Lick Observatory for Roger Hildebrand's group at U of C | Jim Gee office | |||||
77 | 69 | ?? | Jim Gee office | |||||
78 | 70 | Flat mirror & mount . IS MIRROR REALLY FLAT OR IS IT CONAVE? WO | Jim Gee office | |||||
79 | 71 | Angled glass plate & mount | Jim Gee office | |||||
80 | 72 | Eyepiece | Jim Gee office | |||||
81 | 73 | Jim Gee office | ||||||
82 | 74 | Flat mirror in mount (in wooden box) | Jim Gee office | |||||
83 | 75 | 10" concave mirror in mount | Jim Gee office | |||||
84 | 76 | Imaging plate | Jim Gee office | |||||
85 | 77 | Jim Gee office | ||||||
86 | 78 | Jim Gee office | ||||||
87 | 79 | rdd says, microscope objective lens POSSIBLY used by Edwin Hubble & carried aboard shuttle Discovery during 1999 first Hubble upgrade mission | Hallway display | |||||
88 | 80 | Celestial sphere, Denoyer Geppert Co., Chicago, DG 3 | Library | |||||
89 | 81 | Carl Zeiss Jena Nr 1638 blink comparator. Used by Ross (WHO) UOC 0017022 | room off 2nd floor rotunda | |||||
90 | 82 | Holders for different sized plates for use on Zeiss blink comparator (WHO) | room off 2nd floor rotunda | |||||
91 | 83 | Kenwood 12-inch photographic objective lens. In wooden crate. | Room 31 in basement. | |||||
92 | 84 | Measuring machine screws - Goertner Scientific, Chicago, IL, (1959?) | vault off library | |||||
93 | 85 | Telescope drive with ball governor (WHO) | vault off library | |||||
94 | 86 | Objective gratings, apertures, etc. for 40-inch refractor (WHO) | Under 40" floor, south side of pier | |||||
95 | 87 | 2 -Focus apparatus - one labeled P (photographic) - 3-1/4, and one labeled V (visual) | Under 40" floor, south side of pier | |||||
96 | 88 | case for spectrograph? | Under 40" floor, south side of pier | |||||
97 | 89 | Box labeled as Dr. Isham interferometer | Under 40" floor, south side of pier | |||||
98 | 90 | Howell & Sherburn - blink apparatus? | Under 40" floor, south side of pier | |||||
99 | 91 | 14-1/2-inch diameter mirror | Under 40" floor, south side of pier | |||||
100 | 92 | Wave guide? | Under 40" floor, south side of pier | |||||
101 | 93 | Brass refractor - 4-3/4-inch aperture, 50-inch FL | Under 40" floor, south side of pier | |||||
102 | 94 | Under 40" floor, south side of pier | ||||||
103 | 95 | Spider for Cassegrain telescope | Under 40" floor, south side of pier | |||||
104 | 96 | Telescope mounting. Bruce telescope? | Loc 11c - under 40" floor | |||||
105 | 97 | Two crates, one containing a large cracked lens (small crate) and the other a mirror blank (large crate) | Loc 1c - under 40" floor | |||||
106 | 98 | Polaroid copy camera | Slate optical bench hallway |