Microscope
date: label: date made
content: ca 1868
name: label: user
content: Wolfley, William Irvin
label: maker
content: Franz Schmidt & Haensch
notes: label: Description
content: Compound monocular with push-pull and fine focus, square stage trunnion, sub-stage diaphragm, sub-stage mirror, and wooden box with accessories. The “Franz Schmidt / & / Haensch / BERLIN / No 161” inscription on the V-shaped base is that of a firm that specialized in optical instruments for sugar analysis.
label: Description
content: William Irvin Wolfley (b. 1838) was a graduate of Kenyon College and the University of Pennsylvania Medical School who served as a surgeon in the U.S. Army during the Civil War. He went to Europe in 1865, for further medical training in Paris and Berlin, and probably acquired this microscope at that time. He then practiced medicine in Cincinnati and then Columbus, Ohio.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Berlin, Berlin
label: associated place
content: United States: Ohio
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Microscopes
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mrs. Elizabeth F. Wolfley, et. al.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-03083.02
label: accession number
content: 116020
label: catalog number
content: M-03083.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 25.5 cm x 10.2 cm x 13 cm; 10 1/16 in x 4 in x 5 1/8 in