Microtome
name: label: maker
content: Ernst Leitz
notes: label: Description
content: Rotary microtome with an “Ernst Leitz / Wetzlar” inscription. The form incorporated suggestions made by Charles Sedgwick Minot (1852-1914), Professor of Histology and Embryology in the Harvard Medical School.
label: Description
content: Ref: Ad for the “‘Minot Leitz’ Automatic Rotary Microtome,” in Science N.S. 51 (1920): xiii.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Hesse, Wetzlar
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: June W. Leonard
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0689.06
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0689.06
label: accession number
content: 1991.0689
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Microtome
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 20.3 cm x 30.4 cm x 21.6 cm; 8 in x 11 15/16 in x 8 1/2 in