Microtome
notes: label: Description
content: Microtome with an “AO Spencer / Model 820 / Ser. No. 16713” inscription. The form was on the market by the early 1920s.
label: Description
content: Ref: A.O. Spencer ad for the Rotary Microtome in American Journal of Botany 9 (April 1922).
label: Description
content: Oscar W. Richards, “Some Recent Advances in Microscopy II, Microtomy,” Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 75 (Jan. 1956): 136-142.
label: Description
content: Oscar W. Richards, The Effective Use and Proper Care of The Microtome (Buffalo, N.Y., 1942).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0230.03
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0230.03
label: accession number
content: 1991.0230
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Microtome
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 21.3 cm x 25.4 cm x 35.6 cm; 8 3/8 in x 10 in x 14 in