Microscope
date: label: date made
content: ca 1925
name: label: maker
content: Spencer Lens Company
notes: label: Description
content: This “Demonstration Ocular” is so designed that a teacher and a student can see the same microscopic object at the same time. An inscription on the occular reads “SPENCER / BUFFALO / U.S.A.” Inscriptions on the leatherette-covered wooden case read “Spencer / Buffalo, U.S.A.” and “Fisher / Scientific Co. / Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.” Spencer introduced this instrument in 1917. Fisher Scientific began in business, as such, in 1925.
label: Description
content: This example belonged to Robert Leonard (1923-1991), a pharmacist and professor of pharmacology at George Washington University.
label: Description
content: Ref: Spencer Lens Co., <i>Catalog of Products</i> (Buffalo, 1917), p. 112.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Buffalo
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
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content: Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
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content: Microscopes
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: June W. Leonard
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0689.11
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0689.11
label: accession number
content: 1991.0689
objectType: label: Object Name
content: two-person microscope
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: leatherette (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 in x 6 31/32 in x 1 1/4 in; 12.7 cm x 17.69872 cm x 3.2004 cm