Measuring Microscope
notes: label: Description
content: Anna-Mary Passier Carpenter (1916-2003) was a cell biologist with a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh who taught at several small colleges before landing a position in the Department of Anatomy at the University of Minnesota. She devised this instrument in 1962 to measure the volume of tissue seen under a microscope. Earl Bakken, an engineer who developed an artificial pacemaker, machined it for her. Carpenter is probably best known as the author of Human Histology: A Color Atlas (New York, 1968).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Women's History
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content: Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: University of Minnesota. Department of Cell Biology & Neuroscience
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0056.01
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0056.01
label: accession number
content: 1991.0056
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Component Quantitator
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 30.5 cm x 30.5 cm x 160 cm; 12 in x 12 in x 63 in