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Inscribedpaper label on three slides: DIFFRACTION COLOR PHOTOGRAPH. / R. W. WOOD'S PATENT NO. 555,983, MARCH 29, 1904. / HERBERT IVES' " " [PATENT NO.] 817,569, APRIL 10 1906. / F. E. IVES' " " [PATENT NO.] 432,530, JULY 22, 1890.
Historical AttributesThese lantern slides were used at Bowdoin College, Maine.
Primary SourcesWood, R. W. "The Diffraction Process of Color Photography." Science 9, no. 234 (1899): 859-62. www.jstor.org/stable/1626785.
ProvenanceDepartment of Physics, Bowdoin College.
Related WorksDieke, G.H. "Robert Williams Wood: 1868-1955," Washington, National Academy of Sciences, 1993. http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/wood-robert-1.pdf