Microscope
date: label: date made
content: ca 1890
notes: label: Description
content: In this dissecting instrument, the body is of solid wood shaped so that the sides serve as hand rests; the lens can be moved up and down and from side to side. The “Mfrd. by Atkinson & Mentzer / Chicago” inscription refers to a school supply firm that advertised this type of instrument in 1899. Alfred L. Robbins, a Chicagoan who produced various science apparatus for school use, boasted in 1897 that he had devised and manufactured the form. Three years before that, Bausch & Lomb was advertising a similar instrument that had been devised by Charles Reid Barnes (1858-1910), a botanist then teaching at the University of Wisconsin.
label: Description
content: This example belonged to Robert Meyer Leonard (1923-1991), a pharmacist and professor of pharmacology at George Washington University.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Primary Dissecting Microscope,” <i>The Microscope</i> 2 (1894): 181.
label: Description
content: “Improved Disssecting Microscope,” <i>The American School Board Journal</i> 14 (1897): n.p.
label: Description
content: “Improved Dissecting Microscope,” <i>The School Journal</i> 58 (1899): 263.
label: Description
content: “ROBERT M. LEONARD / NIH Administrator,” Washington Post (Dec. 24, 1991), p. B7.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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: 1991.0689.10
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0689.10
label: accession number
content: 1991.0689
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dissecting microscope
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9.5 cm x 27.5 cm x 8.6 cm; 3 3/4 in x 10 13/16 in x 3 3/8 in