Microscope
date: label: date made
content: 1872-1881
name: label: maker
content: Swift, James
notes: label: Description
content: Compound binocular microscope with coarse and fine focus, inter-ocular adjustment, trunnion, square mechanical stage, sub-stage diaphragm, Lister limb with sub-stage mirror, and a “J. SWIFT / 43 University St. / London. W.C.” inscription. James Swift was a microscope maker who began in business on his own in 1857, and worked at that address from 1872-1881.
label: Description
content: Ref: G. L’E. Turner, <i>The Great Age of the Microscope</i> (Bristol, 1989), pp. 184-190.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
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: Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.302606.255
label: catalog number
content: 302606.255
label: accession number
content: 302606
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)