Microscope
date: label: date made
content: 1933
name: label: maker
content: Spencer Lens Company
notes: label: Description
content: Spencer Universal Binocular Microscope Model 56 with coarse and fine focus, triple revolving nosepiece, large rectangular stage, sub-stage mirror, and U-shaped base. The inscription reads “SPENCER / BUFFALO / USA.” The form was introduced in 1929. The 113271 serial number on this example indicates a date of 1933.
label: Description
content: Ref: Spencer Lens Co. ad in <i>Journal of Parasitology</i> 15 (June 1929).
label: Description
content: Spencer Lens Co., <i>Catalog of the More Popular Spencer Microscopes, Microtomes, Delineascopes, Optical Measuring Instruments and Accessories</i> (Buffalo, 1930), p. 35. 35,
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Buffalo
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: Ronald S. Gordon
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.2222.01
label: catalog number
content: 1978.2222.01
label: accession number
content: 1978.2222
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 33.8 cm x 13 cm x 20.5 cm; 13 5/16 in x 5 1/8 in x 8 1/16 in