Object Details
- Draper, Henry
- Description
- Henry Draper (1837-1882) was a New York physician who did pioneering work with astronomical photography and spectroscopy. He was particularly proud of having seen bright lines, which saw as evidence of oxygen, in the solar spectrum. This image is marked “DISCOVERY OF OXYGEN IN THE SUN BY PHOTOGRAPHY, BY PROFESSOR HENRY DRAPER, M.D. 1876.”
- Ref: Henry Draper, “Discovery of Oxygen in the Sun by Photography, and a new Theory of the Solar Spectrum,” American Journal of Science 14 (1877): 89-96.
- George F. Barker, “Memoir of Henry Draper,” Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences 3 (1895), pp. 81-139.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- John William Christopher Draper and James Christopher Draper
- 1876
- ID Number
- PH.333976
- accession number
- 304826
- catalog number
- 333976
- Object Name
- photograph, spectrum
- photograph
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 14 in x 28 in x 1/4 in; 35.56 cm x 71.12 cm x .635 cm
- overall: 71 cm x 14 cm x .8 cm; 27 15/16 in x 5 1/2 in x 5/16 in
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Science
- Record ID
- nmah_1183955
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746aa-3713-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
