Microscope
date: label: date made
content: ca 1890
name: label: maker
content: Griffith, E. H.
notes: label: Description
content: Compound monocular microscope with coarse and fine focus, inclination joint, circular stage, circular base with three ball feet, and an “E. H. GRIFFITH, FAIRPORT N.Y. / PAT. DEC. 14, 86 / 866” inscription on the stand. Ezra Hollace Griffith (1838-1894), a travelling salesman and enthusiastic microscopist, described this form, termed the Griffith Club Microscope, as a “full-sized, first-class” instrument that was “free from tremor, unique in design, and beautiful in appearance.” Bausch & Lomb made the objective for this example, and may also have made the stand as well.
label: Description
content: Ref: E. H. Griffith, “Microscopists Turn Table,” U.S. Patent 354130 (Dec. 14, 1886).
label: Description
content: E. H. Griffith, “Griffith Club Microscope,” <i>The American Monthly Microscopical Journal</i> 11 (1890): 121.
label: Description
content: Randy Watson, “E. H. Griffith and Griffith Club Microscopes,” <i>Rittenhouse</i> 9 (1995): 25-31.
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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dr. and Mrs. M. Seiderman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.0292.01
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0292.01
label: accession number
content: 1978.0292
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 30.6 cm x 14.2 cm x 17.8 cm; 12 1/16 in x 5 9/16 in x 7 in