Accession No

3849

Brief Description

compound microscope, possibly achromatic, by Carl Zeiss, German, 1910 (c)

Origin

Germany; Jena

Maker

Carl Zeiss

Class

microscopes

Earliest Date

1910

Latest Date

1910

Inscription Date

Material

metal (brass); glass; wood

Dimensions

box height 375mm; breadth 210mm; depth 210mm

Special Collection

Provenance

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

Inscription

‘CARL ZEISS
JENA
Nr.44159’

Description Notes

Black finish with brass screws and eyepiece. Horseshoe base with double rectangular pillars to pivot. Swinging, height-adjustable substage condenser apparatus with iris diaphragm. Swinging plano concave mirror fixture on arm from base, mirror missing. Mechanical stage with 2 moveable brass plates attached to black plate fixed in place at pivot. Lower black plate engraved with ‘Nr.3639’. 3 scales marked, each with vernier to 0.1. Scale I: 0-45 to 1, Scale II: 0-31 to 1, Scale III: 0-60 to 1. Revolving objective lens holder with 4 fittings. Pair of coarse focus screws with pinion, scale marked 0-50 to 1 and of vernier to 0.1; fine focus screws on either side of handle marked 1-15 to 1. Engraved “1Interv. / -0.002m/m”. Zeiss.Carl eyepiece no. 12, “Compens-Okular”. Fitted wooden box with sliding compartments for 5 objective lenses and 5 eyepieces. In compartments are 4 Leitz objectives, nos. 1, 3, 3, 6, all signed ‘E.Leitz’. No.1 signed ‘AGENT, C.BAKER, / 244 HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON. / E.Leitz / Wetzland’. Other compartment holds 5 Zeiss eyepieces, nos. 2(Compens-Okular), 4(Orthom-Okular), 8(Kompens-Okular), 4, 4(Komopens-Okular).

Condition: good; incomplete (plano/concave mirror missing).

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