Accession No

3180

Brief Description

compound microscope, polarising, by R. Fuess, German, 1880 (c)

Origin

Germany; Berlin

Maker

Fuess, R.

Class

microscopes

Earliest Date

1880

Latest Date

1880

Inscription Date

Material

metal (oxidised brass; brass, steel, silver); glass; wood

Dimensions

box length 447mm; breadth 209mm; height 157mm

Special Collection

Provenance

Inscription

‘R. Fuess
Berlin’ (on rim of polarising mount)

Description Notes

Polariscope ‘STAUROSCOPE’. Cast claw foot; oxidised brass; brass turned mount to triangular steel column; inset brass rack in upper part of column for brass mount to eyepiece socket; push fit eyepiece with brass collar in two parts with locating notches; knurled steel ring; steel draw tube to brass eye piece with rectangular slot; only a field lens extant; clamped shoe for polariser with brass socket with 2 locating notches marked 45 to 90; polarising tube; glazed aperture and divided flange 0-(360) by 10 to 1 read by vernier to 1’; push fit polariser in long brass and [silvered] tube; swinging mirror; aperture stops; various parts of unknown; 2 centigrade thermometers; fitted wooden case.

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