Accession No

1415

Brief Description

achromatic compound microscope, [binocular]; made by Powell & Lealand; circa 1870

Origin

170 Euston Road; London; England

Maker

Powell & Lealand

Class

microscopes

Earliest Date

1870

Latest Date

1870

Inscription Date

Material

metal (brass); cork

Dimensions

height 437mm; depth 252mm; breadth 184mm

Special Collection

Provenance

Transferred from the Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge, in 01/1962.

Inscription

‘POWELL & LEALAND
170
Euston Road
LONDON’

Description Notes

Brass; bar limb microscope with kettledrum type three legged stand and cork feet; elaborately cast limb with tail piece; trapezoidal column with rack; coarse focus by large knurled screw either side of the bar limb; fine focus [long lever type] driven by screw from the top of the bar limb; binocular body with rack focus. (all optics, stage fittings and accessories missing).

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