Microscope
date: label: date made
content: ca 1850
name: label: maker
content: Queen, James W.
notes: label: Description
content: Compound monocular microscope with push-pull focus and micrometer screw, trunnion, sub-stage diaphragm, Lister limb with sub-stage mirror, black base, and wooden box. The “J. W. QUEEN. PHILA / 186” inscription suggests that it was made in the 1850s, before the firm became James W. Queen & Co. Queen was still offering instruments of this sort in the 1870s.
label: Description
content: Queen termed this “Dr. Woodward’s Student’s Microscope,” noting that it was the “most satisfactory microscope ever offered to the student.” It was identical to Queen’s Table microscope but had a micrometer adjustment for focus. The lenses are achromatic.
label: Description
content: This was probably designed in conjunction with J. J. (Joseph Janvier) Woodward, a young physician who graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1853, and then gave private lessons in microscopy. Woodward became an assistant surgeon with the Union Army in 1861.
label: Description
content: Ref: James W. Queen & Co., <i>Illustrated Catalogue of Mathematical, Optical, and Philosophical Instruments</i> (Philadelphia, 1859), pp. 26-27.
label: Description
content: James W. Queen & Co., <i>Priced and Illustrated Catalogue of Optical Instruments</i> (Philadelphia, 1874), p. 51.
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: 1989.0378.01.1
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0378.01.1
label: accession number
content: 1989.0378
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
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content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: mahogany (overall material)
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content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 26 cm x 12.3 cm x 15.9 cm; 10 1/4 in x 4 13/16 in x 6 1/4 in