Accession No

4461

Brief Description

[achromatic] compound microscope; 1/2 20th century

Origin

Maker

Class

microscopes

Earliest Date

1900

Latest Date

1950

Inscription Date

Material

metal; brass; glass; wood; ivory

Dimensions

box 295mm h x 190mm l x 147mm w; microscope 264mm h

Special Collection

Provenance

Transferred from another University department.

Inscription

Description Notes

Wooden box with brass carrying handle and hinges; lock removed; empty slide drawer with ivory handle in top left; fittings to store accessories.
Microscope: black finish with brass body and screws; kettledrum foot; pivoting body; circular stage with fittings for stage clips (missing); condenser with iris diaphragm; swinging plane mirror; cranked limb with coarse focus screws either side of limb; fine focus at top of limb. Push-fit eyepiece.
Two brass object lenses in the case, stored in brass tubes with screw-fit lids. One marked ‘1 in’; the other marked ‘1/4 in’. Case also contains a magnifying lens on two brass rods, connected together by a ball joint, which screw into a brass-topped disc base, also stored in the side of the box.

Condition - very good; complete.

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