Accession No

3847

Brief Description

compound microscope, possibly achromatic, by Carl Zeiss, German, 1900 (c)

Origin

Germany; Jena

Maker

Carl Zeiss

Class

microscopes

Earliest Date

1900

Latest Date

1900

Inscription Date

Material

metal (brass, white metal, oxidised brass); glass

Dimensions

height 330mm; breadth 125mm; depth 147mm; box height 415mm; breadth 275mm; depth 225mm

Special Collection

Provenance

Transferred from Dept of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, 1992.

Inscription

‘Carl Zeiss
Jena.
No 9023.’ (body)
‘C ZEISS JENA’ (nosepiece)

Description Notes

Horseshoe base with black-painted finish. Pillar to tongued joint; brass pillar with knurled screw with conical cap for fine focus; fine focus scale divided 0 - [100], numbered by 10, subdivided to 2. Swinging plano-concave mirror. Round brass and plastic stage. Substage condenser with iris diaphragm (mechanism broken). Shaped bar to limb with rack and double screws either side for coarse focus (mechanism broken); rack on body. Rotating triple nose piece; no objectives present. Push fit eyepiece.

Condition fair (focusing and diaphragm mechanisms broken); incomplete (no objectives or stage clips present).

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