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- Description
- This is a compound monocular with coarse and fine focus, double nosepiece, square stage, inclination joint with handle, sub-stage diaphragm, sub-stage mirror, and horseshoe base. The inscription reads “E. Leitz Wetzlar / No 24997.” The serial number indicates a date of around 1892. The back of the base is marked “48?”
- This microscope was used at the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.
- Ref: Ernst Leitz, Petrological and Metallographic Microscopes (Wetzlar, 1910), pp. 14-17.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Microscope
- date made
- ca 1892
- maker
- Ernst Leitz
- place made
- Germany: Hesse, Wetzlar
- ID Number
- 1994.0397.05
- catalog number
- 1994.0397.05
- accession number
- 1994.0397
- Credit Line
- Ronald S. Wilkinson
- subject
- Modern Physics
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- Medicine and Science: Modern Physics
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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