Microscope
date: label: date made
content: 1902-1927
name: label: user
content: Noguchi, Hideyo
label: maker
content: Zeiss, Carl
notes: label: Description
content: Hideyo Noguchi (1876-1928) was a Japanese bacteriologist who moved to the U.S. in 1900 to work with Simon Flexner at the University of Pennsylvania. A few years later, having gone with Dr. Flexner to the newly-established Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York, Dr. Noguchi used this microscope to study of the causal agent of syphilis.
label: Description
content: This is a compound monocular with coarse and fine focus, triple nosepiece, large circular stage covered with vulcanite, trunnion, Abbé illuminating apparatus, black horseshoe base, and wooden box with extra lenses. The “CARL ZEISS / JENA” logo, introduced in 1904, appears on the tube. The serial number is 51900.
label: Description
content: Ref: Eimer & Amend, <i>Microscopes and Microscopical Accessories</i> (Jena, 1902), pp. 50-51.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Thuringia, Jena
label: associated place
content: Germany
label: associated place
content: United States: New York, New York City
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: Gift of Rockefeller Institute through Dr. Detlev W. Bronk, President
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-09352
label: accession number
content: 224610
label: catalog number
content: M-09352
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
label: Other Terms
content: microscope; Monocular; Compound
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 31 cm x 14.5 cm x 17.8 cm; 12 3/16 in x 5 11/16 in x 7 in
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 37.4 cm x 20.6 cm x 20.8 cm; 14 3/4 in x 8 1/8 in x 8 3/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall, scope only: 13 1/2 in x 6 in x 7 1/4 in; 34.29 cm x 15.24 cm x 18.415 cm