Microscope, Lerebours
date: label: date made
content: 1829
name: label: maker
content: Lerebours
notes: label: Description
content: This heavy compound monocular microscope has a push-pull focus, square stage, sub-stage aperture ring, sub-stage mirror, and tri-leg base. The “Lerebours Opticien / Place du Pont Neuf N. 13 / à Paris” inscription on the tube refers to the firm begun by Noël Marie Lerebours (1762-1840) and continued by his son, Noël Marie Paymal Lerebours (1807–1873). This was purchased for the U.S. Military Academy in 1829. That was one year before the first achromatic microscope lenses were produced, in England.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
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: U.S. Military Academy
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-09792
label: catalog number
content: M-09792
label: accession number
content: 217544
label: catalog number
content: 217544.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
label: Other Terms
content: microscope; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 5/16 in x 8 3/4 in x 16 in; 38.89375 cm x 22.225 cm x 40.64 cm