Microscope
date: label: date made
content: late 20th century
name: label: maker
content: Learning Things, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: Small orange plastic compound monocular microscope with push-pull focus, black stage, and sub-stage mirror. The inscription on the bottom reads “PATENT APPLIED FOR / MADE IN U.S.A. / LEARNING / THINGS, / INC.” Learning Things was an educational supply firm established in Littleton, Mass., in 1970.
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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Oscar Richards
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0336.03
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0336.03
label: accession number
content: 1982.0336
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/2 in x 3 cm; 13.97 cm x 1 3/16 in