Accession No

1509

Brief Description

achromatic compound microscope, ‘Fram’ student type; made by W Watson & Sons Ltd.; circa 1910

Origin

313 High Holborn; London; England

Maker

W. Watson & Son Ltd.

Class

microscopes

Earliest Date

1910

Latest Date

1910

Inscription Date

Material

metal (brass); glass

Dimensions

height 345 mm; depth 210 mm; breadth 175 mm

Special Collection

Provenance

Transfer from the Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, in 09/1971.

Inscription

‘W. Watson & Sons Ltd
13309
313 High Holborn
London’
‘PATH UNIV CAMB
NO 95’
Agent
Chas. Hymans.
Cambridge’

Description Notes

Brass with black finish; kettledrum foot to pivoting limb; cranked limb; square stage with slot; tubular tail piece with swinging plano/concave mirror; condenser with iris diaphragm on rod and swings out of the optic axis; brass screw raises the condenser pair of coarse focus screws either side of limb; fine focus screw at head of limb with conical cap; screw fit draw tube graduated in cm; push fit eyepiece; triple nose piece (no objectives extant).

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