Microscope
Microscope
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- Description
- This is a small magnifying glass in a metal frame that, according to the text on its cardboard box, was designed “For examining bank notes, minerals, flowers, seeds, linen, etc., etc.” It was designed and sold by Laban Heath (1837-1894), a New England engraver who specialized in detecting counterfeit currency. This was collected by Richard Halsted Ward (1837-1917), a noted medical microscopist, or his son, Henry B. Ward, a pioneering parasitologist.
- Ref: Laban Heath, “Stand for Magnifying Glass,” U.S. Patent 198542 (Dec. 25, 1877).
- Laban Heath, Heath’s Infallible Government Counterfeit Detector (Boston, 1878).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- microscope
- date made
- ca 1880
- maker
- Heath, Laban
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Boston
- Measurements
- overall: 4 1/4 in x 2 1/2 in x 1 1/8 in; 10.795 cm x 6.35 cm x 2.8575 cm
- ID Number
- MG.M-09745
- accession number
- 174919
- catalog number
- M-09745
- 174919.30
- Credit Line
- Miss Charlotte B. Ward
- 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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