Microscope
date: label: date made
content: mid 18th century
notes: label: Description
content: Compound monocular microscope with cardboard tubes, the outer one covered with sharkskin. The base and fittings are wood. The three S-shaped legs are brass, as is the circular stage and the sub-stage mirror on a swivel mount. The form was designed in the 1720s by the English optician, Edmund Culpeper. Some features of this example—notably the shape of the legs—suggest the work of Matthew Loft.
label: Description
content: Ref: Reginald Clay and Thomas Court, <i>The History of the Microscope</i> (London, 1932), pp. 118-122.
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-09715
label: catalog number
content: M-09715
label: accession number
content: 236254
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
label: Other Terms
content: Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (stand material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (microscope material)
label: Physical Description
content: fish skin (barrel material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 16 5/8 in x 6 3/4 in x 7 in; 42.2275 cm x 17.145 cm x 17.78 cm