Accession No

1520

Brief Description

achromatic compound microscope; circa 1850

Origin

Maker

Class

microscopes

Earliest Date

1850

Latest Date

1850

Inscription Date

Material

metal (brass); glass

Dimensions

height 357mm; depth 150mm; breadth 135mm

Special Collection

Provenance

Transfer from the Department of Mineralogy & Petrology, University of Cambridge, 08/1971.

Inscription

‘74’

Description Notes

Brass; claw foot; pair uprights to pivoting square sectioned limb; square stage with aperture; sliding top stage with rest; sliding rotating diaphragm; tubular tail piece; (mirror no longer extant); racked triangular column; knurled coarse focus screws either side of limb; bar limb with clamp; fine focus screw on top of limb; body; push fit eyepiece; no objective extant.

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