Fittings for the Melloni apparatus

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  • eight brass supports, with indices;
  • a small alcohol lamp;
  • a platform for a light bulb with a brass stem. It also has a concave silver reflector the height of which is adjustable;
  • a round brass platform (diameter 8 cm) which acts as a support for the sources and the different devices or means that act on the beams;
  • a platform composed of a brass rod and a rectangular wooden base (12 x 5 cm);
  • three rectangular, burnished brass screens (11.4 x 14.8 cm) of which two are double with a jointed rod and one simple one with a jointed arm, which makes it possible to intercept or let through the heat rays by lowering or raising the screen;
  • two round diaphragm holders to limit the dimensions of the beams;
  • an auxiliary brass rule (length 40 cm), not graduated, which can be jointed to the other and a round platform with a graduated scale, it too brass, both for use in studying reflection, refraction and scattering of heat radiation;...continues