Microscope
date: label: date made
content: 1866
notes: label: Description
content: Patent model for Hamilton L. Smith, “Improvement in Microscopes,” U.S. Patent 52901 (1866). Hamilton Lanphere Smith (1819-1903) was a graduate of Yale College who taught natural philosophy and astronomy at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, from 1853 to 1868, and then moved to Hobart College in Geneva, N.Y. Smith was also an avid microscopist. His invention, he claimed “consists in the use of a movable reflector inserted into the tube of a microscope and arranged so as to transmit the light down through the lens on the object in such a manner that by the action of said lens or object glass of the microscope the light is condensed on the object to be viewed, and an object viewed as opaque will be illuminated for the microscope.”
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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-09776
label: accession number
content: 89797
label: catalog number
content: M-09776
label: patent number
content: 52,901
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope, patent model
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall, as stored with tag: 2 5/8 in x 2 3/4 in x 3 1/4 in; 6.6675 cm x 6.985 cm x 8.255 cm