Microscope
date: label: date made
content: ca 1890
name: label: maker
content: McIntosh Battery & Optical Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Compound monocular microscope with coarse and fine focus, triple nosepiece, mechanical stage, inclination joint, sub-stage mirror, and tri-leg base. Inscriptions read “MCINTOSH / BATTERY AND / OPTICAL CO. / CHICAGO” and “Pat. Mar. 13, 1882” and “829.” The three objectives are by Bausch & Lomb.
label: Description
content: Lyman McIntosh (d. 1892) was an American physician and entrepreneur whose firm made and marketed microscopes, lanterns, and medical electrical devices.
label: Description
content: This microscope belonged, in turn, to Charles Caldwell, president of the Chicago Surgical Society; John Kerrigan, Sr., a Chicago physician; Dr. Lee Kerrigan; and Dr. Robert J. Frost, a physician and pathologist in Michigan City, Ind.
label: Description
content: Ref: Lyman D. McIntosh, “Microscope,” U.S. Patent 273,752 (March 13, 1883).
label: Description
content: McIntosh Battery and Optical Co., <i>Catalogue</i> (Chicago, 1890).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
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: Dr. Robert J. Frost
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1984.1074.01.01
label: catalog number
content: 1984.1074.01
label: accession number
content: 1984.1074
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: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 40.1 cm x 17.5 cm x 22.2 cm; 15 13/16 in x 6 7/8 in x 8 3/4 in