Article ID: CBB105949398

Constructing the Electric Eye: Situating the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Wisconsin Collection of Photoelectric Detectors in Historical Context (2020)

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Between 2017 and 2019, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum acquired a collection of photoelectric tubes used in the earliest program of astronomical photoelectric photometry at the University of Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Collection of Photoelectric Detectors represents a unique look inside the development of a pioneering research project and a fledgling technology. The process by which techniques and technologies related to photoelectric photometry developed in the early twentieth century involved a variety of academic disciplines and commercial actors, and this process is reflected in the variety and specific features of the tubes in the collection. This paper attempts to situate the Wisconsin Collection within the wider development of photoelectric tubes as a technology, the development of observation techniques at Wisconsin, and their contributions to astronomical knowledge.

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Authors & Contributors
Staubermann, Klaus B.
Hrushytska, Iryna
Cristina Eugenia Siqueiros Valencia
Antolin Cordova
Schuster, William J.
Spiegel, Richard J.
Concepts
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Science and technology, relationships
Astronomy
Science and society
Photometry
Science and culture
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
17th century
Places
Germany
Greenwich (England)
England
Ukraine
United States
Japan
Institutions
Sternwarte Kiel
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Royal Observatory Greenwich
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Observatorio Astronómico Nacional
Lick Observatory
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