Microscope
date: label: date made
content: ca 1920
name: label: maker
content: F. Davidson & Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Compound monocular with coarse and fine focus, tilting hinge, triple nosepiece, square stage, sub-stage mirror, horseshoe base, and an inscription that reads “THE ‘DAVON’ SUPER MICROSCOPE / PATENT No. 10670 - 14 / F. DAVIDSON & CO. / LONDON, W. / 65A.”
label: Description
content: Davidson boasted that “This apparatus combines in standardized and instantly interchangeable form the functions of the microscope, telescope, camera and projecting lantern for laboratory, educational and industrial purposes.”
label: Description
content: Ref: F. Davidson & Co., <i>The Davon Micro-Telescope and Super Microscope</i> (London, 1914).
label: Description
content: P. J. Risdon, “Microscope and Telescope Too,” <i>Popular Science Monthly</i> (May 1921): 60-61.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
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: Estate of William Whiting
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.308729.01
label: catalog number
content: 308729.01
label: accession number
content: 308729
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 42.1 cm x 11.2 cm x 16.3 cm; 16 9/16 in x 4 7/16 in x 6 7/16 in