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Title
Dayton Miller's interferometer at Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued
1923
1924
1925
1926
1927
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Photographs
Rights Information
For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description
Dayton Clarence Miller's interferometer for his ether drift experiment at Mount Wilson. gpn is copy taken 7/10/1932. In this photograph, the protective insulation is removed from the instrument. Miller's interferometer was at Mount Wilson 1925-1926 for experiments.
Image courtesy of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science Collection at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Type
image
Format
image/tiff
Extent
1 8X10 print
Identifier
COPC 746
28743
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/926
Subject
Interferometers
Optical interferometers
Miller, Dayton Clarence, 1866-1941
Special relativity (Physics)
Mirrors
Mount Wilson Observatory
Astronomical instruments
Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place
Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source
Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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