Microscope
date: label: date made
content: ca 1843
name: label: maker
content: Smith, James
notes: label: Description
content: Large compound monocular with rack-and-pinion, fine focus located near the nosepiece, inclination joint, mechanical stage, achromatic condenser, large sub-stage mirror, tri-leg base, mahogany case, and box of accessories. The “JAS SMITH / LONDON” inscription on the foot refers to a mathematical instrument maker who began making microscopes for the trade in the 1820s, making microscopes under his own name around 1840, and trading as Smith & Beck in 1847. This example, serial number 60, resembles the one that Smith made for the Microscopical Society of London in 1840.
label: Description
content: Ref: G. L’E. Turner, <i>The Great Age of the Microscope</i> (Bristol, 1989), pp. 171-172.
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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.281267.09.1
label: catalog number
content: 281267.09.01
label: accession number
content: 281267
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 37.8 cm x 22.5 cm x 33.7 cm; 14 7/8 in x 8 7/8 in x 13 1/4 in