Prototype Weissenberg camera

Object summary

Title: Prototype Weissenberg camera
Object ID: IN-1262
Date made: before 1934
Place made: United States, Massachusetts, Cambridge, MIT
Designer: Buerger, Martin Julian; Supper, Charles
Maker: Charles Supper Co.
Object type: Camera
Major collection: Science
Named collection: Martin Buerger Collection
On view: No

Description

This item is a cylindrical camera mounted on a rectangular base.

The Weissenberg camera was an instrument developed by Karl Weissenberg in 1924 to determine the structure of a molecule through x-ray crystallography. Martin Buerger and his machinist Charles Supper built an automated equi-inclination version of this instrument. This was their prototype, and they later refined it into the Weissenberg camera that is IN-1252.