Microscope
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- Description
- In the mid-1870s, The Industrial Publication Co. of New York offered a “Handy Compound Pocket Microscope” that sold for $7.50 and that was “capable of giving a clear and well defined view of the general form of such objects as urinary deposits, diatoms, desmids, etc.” This example seems to be an instrument of that sort. It is a tiny monocular with push-pull focus, rectangular stage, sub-stage mirror, inclination joint, and circular base.
- Ref: “Handy Compound Pocket Microscope,” The Technologist, or Industrial Monthly 5 (1874): 108.
- The Industrial Publication Co., Priced and Descriptive Catalogue of Microscopes and Accessory Apparatus and Instruments (New York, n.d.): back cover.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- microscope
- date made
- ca 1874
- Physical Description
- nickel plating (overall material)
- brass (overall material)
- glass (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 10.8 cm x 4.4 cm x 4.8 cm; 4 1/4 in x 1 23/32 in x 1 7/8 in
- ID Number
- MG.256202.01
- accession number
- 256202
- catalog number
- 256202.01
- subject
- Science & Scientific Instruments
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Science & Mathematics
- Microscopes
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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