Microscope
name: label: maker
content: Meccano
notes: label: Description
content: Simple compound monocular with a push-tube focus, hinged joint, square stage, sub-stage mirror, and square base. It comes with slides and apparatus for simple chemical experiments. The inscription on the box reads “MECCANO / MICROSCOPE / SET / with Polaroid Junior . . . The Meccano Company of America, Inc. / 290 Fifth Avenue New York, N.Y. U.S.A.”
label: Description
content: Frank Hornby, of Liverpool, introduced the first Meccano construction sets in 1901. Meccano microscope sets were available by the 1930s.
label: Description
content: Ref: M. P. Gould, <i>Frank Hornby: The Boy who made $1,000,000 with a Toy</i> (1915).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
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content: Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
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content: Microscopes
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: William H. Yeingst
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1992.0508.01
label: catalog number
content: 1992.0508.01
label: accession number
content: 1992.0508
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope set
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
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content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10.2 cm x 25.4 cm x 45.7 cm; 4 1/32 in x 10 in x 18 in