Microscope
name: label: maker
content: Queen, James W.
notes: label: Description
content: Simple aquatic microscope that fits into and stands on a wooden case covered with fabric. It has a large stage, sub-stage mirror, and cylindrical stand, and is so designed that the observer can keep an eye on aquatic creatures as they move about. The form was introduced in the 1740s by the English optician, John Cuff, at the behest of a Swiss naturalist named Abraham Trembley. In 1752, Cuff modified the microscope for the naturalist, John Ellis. That instrument, known as “Ellis’s aquatic microscope” and made by others, remained popular for years.
label: Description
content: Ref: Savile Bradbury, <i>The Evolution of the Microscope</i> (Oxford, 1967), pp. 97-98.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-10503
label: catalog number
content: M-10503
label: accession number
content: 252499
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/8 in x 5 1/4 in x 3 5/8 in; 3.4925 cm x 13.335 cm x 9.2075 cm