Newton's lantern slide catalogue: section 2 (circa 1920)

43, Museum Street, London, W.C.I. GREENWICH OBSERVATORY. • Plain Slides, 2i. each. *; a i fThe Thompson Telescope. The 80-inch Reflector, with the new Spectroscopic Attachment. . ,_;4 General view oi the Observatory Buildinc ■x from the roof of the new £-■ building. 5 The new Altazimuth Observatory. 8 The Chronograph. from the Court* yard, showing the Transit Building, the Computating Offices, and the Time-signalling Department. 8 The Time-signalling Desk. B The half-prism Spectroscope on the South- East Equatorial. 10 The site of the Greenwich Meridian. U The Magnetic Pardian. ' !■' i 13 The Magnetic Dip Instrument. j’-Vj For other Slides of Greenwich, see page 92 and “Geography," Section 5 of this Catalogue! ru THE STARRY HEAVENS. i. Arranged by Professor R. A. Gregory, F.R.A.S., Oxford University, Extension Lectnrer, Professor of Astronomy in Queen's College, London. Typed Notes, lr. Bd. Plain Slidts, 2s. each. 1 Galileo's Drawing of the Stars in Orion y A Region of die Milky Way about Cygnl ;fl Argus Region of the Milky Way The Great Nebula in the Pleiades [ Nebulosities surrounding the Pleiades . The Star Cluster In Centauri B_The Great Nebula in Orion R The Nebula In Andromeda 14 The Annular Nebula in Lyra 15 Spiral Nebula 16 Star Cluster 17 Dumb-bell Nebula In Vulpecula 18 Prismatic Camera for photographing the Spectre of Stars IB Spectrum of Vega 20 „ A returns 21 Series of Spectra of Stars increasing in temperature 22 Spectrum of the Sun compared with the spectrum of a Star . „ 23 The Moon taken at the Lick Observatory * BN E THE FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSE. THE WORLD OF ATOMS. By kind permission of Messrs. George Newnes, Ltd. Most of the Slides have been reproduced from the well-known publication “ The Outlines of Science." Descriptive Notes will be found in Vol. I., pages 177-206. . r Plain Slides, 2s. each, except where otherwise marked. I, The Foundation of the Universe. A very early 8 Jl Clerk-MaxwelL 4* John Dalton. Dyes and Hydrogen atoms. •8'.The Brownian Movements. 7 The Brownian Movement. -A:A Soap Babble. B-’Whmt ia a Million? O ’Slr W. Crookes. -IS Electric discharge In a vacuum tube. ,J4'Heating effect of Cathode rays. - 18 Early form of X-ray tube with Cathode. *W. An early X-ray photograph. .■'•17 A recent X-rey photograph. jd~l8 The Spectrum. (Coloured I Os.) -.19 An Electroscope. 20 Relative size of atoms and electrons compared ' •. with the Hemisphere. ■p- 21 Atom drawn to scale, to the sire of St. Paul’s > ■ Cathedral, showing sixes of Electrons. *L22.‘Prof. Curie. -^23 Madam Curl -723 Madam Curia. -.24 Spectrum of Bmanitlon of Radium. 3s. .38 Spectrum Radium. 3s. 2fl;SonSpots. >27 Electrons streaming from the tun te the earth. 28 Hydrogen atoms as nriginally explained by S ir Oliver Lodge 2s. 6d. „ 29 Radium „ „ „ • ,, 2 s. 6d. (Explanatory notes supplied for the above _ two slides.) _ i 1 30 Sir W. Ramsey collecting emanltions of radium. 31 „ „ „ experimenting with a gold leaf - Electroscope. 32 „ „ „ charging a gold leaf Electroscope with radium. 33 Explanatory diagram of Sir W. Crook's Spinthariscope. 34 Spinthariscope effect. Rack slide, 18s. 35 Electrons produced -by passage of X-ray through 37 Magnetic deflection of Radium rays. 38 Arrangement of Atoms in a Diamond. 39 Disintegration of the Atom. 40 An electric current discharged from positive pole; * 41 ,. .. „ „ negative „ 42 Flash of Lightning. 2s. 6d. 43 Magnetic circuit of an electric current. 44 Arrangement showing similar poles of two bar magnets. ; • f 1; 45 Arrangement showing dissimilar poles of two bar magnets. 46 Electrified Hand. 47 Light waves. 48 Mail Steamer at full speed. 49 Wave Shapes. 2s. Bd. 50 Wave track of a ship. 2s. 6fl.