modified Port-A-View light box
Date: 1980s
Inventory Number: 2004-1-0170
Classification: Light Box
Subject:
Maker: Logan Electric Specialty Manufacturing Company (circa 1945-present)
User: Edwin H. Land (1909 - 1991)
Cultural Region:
Dimensions:
57.2 × 54.9 × 52.1 cm (22 1/2 × 21 5/8 × 20 1/2 in.)
Description:
A standard light box has been mounted into a large pivoting viewer made of wood and built for Edwin Land. It was probably used to view StereoJet images.
The light box itself (serial No. 2020/2131) has a 12" x 17" viewing area. It is illuminated by a 5000K fluorescent light found at the back of the box. It looks like it might have been used with 2004-1-0292, a stereojet image of a molecule. There's already some sort of similar image in place on this instrument.
The light box itself (serial No. 2020/2131) has a 12" x 17" viewing area. It is illuminated by a 5000K fluorescent light found at the back of the box. It looks like it might have been used with 2004-1-0292, a stereojet image of a molecule. There's already some sort of similar image in place on this instrument.
In Collection(s)
Signedon light box: Logan Electric Specialities
Curatorial RemarksAccording to the Rowland Institute at Harvard, here, "The concept of using polarizing images for stereoscopy was first described in 1940 by E. H. Land. Land and his associates at Polaroid Corporation developed photographic and halftone printing processes for producing such images, which they termed Vectographs. The StereoJet process advances stereoscopy with polarizing images by using inkjet printing technology, new materials, and modern digital imaging."
ProvenanceThis object belonged to Edwin H. Land and came from the Rowland Institute, Harvard University. Gift of the Edwin H. Land Family.