Microscope
date: label: date made
content: early 1880s
name: label: maker
content: John W. Sidle & Co.
notes: label: Description
content: This is a compound monocular with coarse and fine focus, inclination joint, circular stage, sub-stage iris diaphragm, sub-stage mirror, tri-leg base, and a Zeiss objective. The inscriptions read “John W. Sidle & Co. Lancaster, Pa. ACME” and “176” and “G. S. Woolman / AGT / N.Y.” John W. Sidle began making microscopes in Philadelphia in 1879, and moved to Lancaster in 1880. George S. Woolman, a microscope merchant in New York, was his agent for a brief period around 1880.
label: Description
content: Sidle developed the Acme stand in conjunction with James Edwards Smith, a professor of medicine and active microscopist. Sidle described this example, an Acme No. 3, as “a good, cheap stand, which would be adapted to all kinds of work.”
label: Description
content: Ref: John W. Sidle & Co., <i>Condensed Price List of the ‘Acme’ Optical Goods </i> (Lancaster, Pa., 1881), pp. 5-8.
label: Description
content: James Edwards Smith, <i>How to See with the Microscope</i> (Chicago, 1880), pp. 84-92.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Lancaster
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.308729.02
label: accession number
content: 308729
label: catalog number
content: 308729.02
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: 36.7 cm x 13.6 cm x 18.9 cm; 14 7/16 in x 5 3/8 in x 7 7/16 in