Cabinet

A cabinet for specimens, materials and apparatus for experiment (14 drawers).

Some of the drawers are labelled, but many of the labels are missing. This cabinet contains photographic equipment (such as exposure meters), glass & prisms, mica, threads & wires, crystals & chemicals, microscope slides. The contents suggests it belonged to John FW Herschel and then later to his three sons, William James, Col John and Alexander Herschel, all keen experimental scientists in the mid to late 19th century. The cabinet though not the contents features in Steavenson's catalogue of all extant 'scientific' material housed at the Herschel family home in Slough (Observatory House) in 1924.

Object Details

ID: AST1030
Collection: Astronomical and navigational instruments
Type: Cabinet
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Unknown
Date made: 19th century
People: Herschel, John Frederick William; William James Herschel Herschel, Alexander Stewart Colonel John Herschel
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Herschel Collection
Measurements: Overall: 295 mm x 675 mm x 247 mm
Parts: Cabinet