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- Description
- This is a stereoscopic instrument with coarse and fine focus, square stage, folding wooden ramps that clip to the stage, sub-stage mirror, and wooden box with extra lenses. The inscription reads “CARL ZEISS / JENA” and “GERMANY.” There may be a 1741319 serial number.
- Zeiss began marketing stereoscopic microscopes in 1897, noting that the idea had originated with Horatio Saltstall Greenough (1845-1916), an American zoologist and, incidentally, son of the sculptor, Horatio Greenough. The firm introduced this model XA stand in the early 1930s.
- Ref: “Greenough’s Stereoscopic Microscope and Its Auxiliary Appliances,” Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society 18 (1898): 469-473.
- Carl Zeiss, Zeiss Microscopes and Accessories (Jena, 1934), pp. 71-72.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- microscope
- Other Terms
- microscope; Binocular; Compound
- date made
- ca 1930
- maker
- Zeiss, Carl
- place made
- Germany: Thuringia, Jena
- Physical Description
- wood (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- glass (overall material)
- black (overall color)
- green (overall color)
- Measurements
- overall: 39 cm x 20 cm x 22.3 cm; 15 11/32 in x 7 7/8 in x 8 25/32 in
- ID Number
- MG.M-11422
- accession number
- 260035
- catalog number
- M-11422
- Credit Line
- Division of Marine Invertebrates, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
- subject
- Science & Scientific Instruments
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Microscopes
- Science & Mathematics
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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