Accession No

0722

Brief Description

solar microscope, by George Adams Jnr., English, circa 1795

Origin

England; London; 60 Fleet Street

Maker

Adams, George (Jnr.)

Class

microscopes

Earliest Date

1795

Latest Date

1795

Inscription Date

Material

metal (brass, wire, steel); glass; wood (boxwood, pine, other); ivory

Dimensions

box length 483mm; breadth 351mm; height 410mm

Special Collection

Robert Whipple collection

Provenance

Purchased from the Executors of C.H. Cribb, Holborn, England, in 03/1933.

Inscription

‘G. Adams No60 Fleet Street LONDON’

Description Notes

Brass; square plate with threaded aperture; 2 wing headed nuts for adjusting the brass framed mirror; body with conical and cylindrical parts in one piece with draw tube; 2 large screws for fixing the plate to the window shutter; 2 opaque object boxes; one screws to body, one with its own screw fit body with lens; plain mirror inside each box adjusted by pair of push fit tubes with magnifying lenses; spiral wire spring with knurled screw keeps slide pressing on box; transparent object microscope, push fit tube; collar with rack plate numbered ‘1-6’; slide carrier with steel spring and pair of [condensing] lenses; ‘megaloscope’ lens screws to end of tube; brass live object slide; 3 large boxwood slides (only one with object); 5 4-object ivory slides; brass tube with plunger and brass spring of unknown function; brass box with pine central division; 2 brass troughs with brass spring on one side, fitted wooden box (lid broken).

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