Microscope
- Description
- This compound monocular is a Spencer Model 30 designed for research and clinical work of the most exacting character. It has coarse and fine focus, triple nosepiece, large square stage, inclination joint, sub-stage illuminating apparatus, sub-stage mirror, horseshoe base, and wooden box. The inscription reads “Spencer Microscope / ALOE CO. Sales Agents / No 26578.” The back of the arm is marked “PAT. DEC. 11-1900” and “Aug. 38-1906.” The serial number indicates a date of 1916. The mechanical stage is marked ‘BAUSCH & LOMB.”
- This was used by the donor’s father, Orra Edgar Patterson (1879-1937), a physician in the Pacific Northwest, and by his sister, Virginia Patterson Beeler (b. ca. 1913), a physician in Washington, D.C.
- Ref: Spencer Lens Co., Spencer Microscopes and Accessories (Buffalo, 1914), pp. 16-27.
- Hermann Zirngibl, “Microscope,” U.S. Patent 663,649 (Dec. 11, 1900).
- Harry N. Ott, “Microscope,” U.S. Patent 829,422 (Aug. 28, 1906).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1916
- maker
- Spencer Lens Company
- place made
- United States: New York, Buffalo
- Measurements
- case: 14 1/8 in x 7 1/4 in x 7 7/8 in; 35.8775 cm x 18.415 cm x 20.0025 cm
- microscope: 11 1/8 in x 5 1/4 in x 6 1/4 in; 28.2575 cm x 13.335 cm x 15.875 cm
- ID Number
- MG.M-13835
- accession number
- 290305
- catalog number
- M-13835
- 290305.01
- Credit Line
- Bryon Patterson
- subject
- Science & Scientific Instruments
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Science & Mathematics
- Microscopes
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
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