Microtome
date: label: date made
content: after 1885
name: label: maker
content: Jung, Rudolph
notes: label: Description
content: Incomplete example of the “Small microtome with mechanical knife motion, arranged as a freezing and paraffine embedding microtome” that Rudolph Jung (1845-1900), a precision engineer in Heidelberg termed “An extra-ordinarily cheap instrument which commends itself for many purposes.” An inscription reads “R. Jung / Heidelberg / No. 3999.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Chicago. World’s Columbian Exhibition, Special Catalogue of the Collective Exhibition of Scientific Instruments and Appliances Exhibited by the Deutsche Gesellshaft fur Mechanik und Optik (Berlin, 1893), pp. 24-34, on 26.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Bavaria, Heidelberg
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: The Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.217934.03
label: catalog number
content: 217934.03
label: catalog number
content: M-07162
label: accession number
content: 217934
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microtome
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 in x 5 19/32 in x 2 1/2 in; 20.32 cm x 14.224 cm x 6.35 cm