Microscope
date: label: date made
content: 1916
name: label: maker
content: Spencer Lens Company
notes: label: Description
content: This compound monocular, a Spencer Model 30, was designed for research and clinical work of the most exacting character. It has coarse and fine focus, triple nosepiece, large square stage, inclination joint, sub-stage illuminating apparatus, sub-stage mirror, horseshoe base, and wooden box. The inscription reads “Spencer Microscope / ALOE CO. Sales Agents / No 26578.” The back of the arm is marked “PAT. DEC. 11-1900” and “Aug. 38-1906.” The serial number indicates a date of 1916. The mechanical stage is marked ‘BAUSCH & LOMB.”
label: Description
content: This was used by the donor’s father, Orra Edgar Patterson (1879-1937), a physician in the Pacific Northwest, and by his sister, Virginia Patterson Beeler (b. ca. 1913), a physician in Washington, D.C.
label: Description
content: Ref: Spencer Lens Co., <i>Spencer Microscopes and Accessories</i> (Buffalo, 1914), pp. 16-27.
label: Description
content: Hermann Zirngibl, “Microscope,” U.S. Patent 663,649 (Dec. 11, 1900).
label: Description
content: Harry N. Ott, “Microscope,” U.S. Patent 829,422 (Aug. 28, 1906).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Buffalo
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: Bryon Patterson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-13835
label: accession number
content: 290305
label: catalog number
content: M-13835
label: catalog number
content: 290305.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: case: 14 1/8 in x 7 1/4 in x 7 7/8 in; 35.8775 cm x 18.415 cm x 20.0025 cm
label: Measurements
content: microscope: 11 1/8 in x 5 1/4 in x 6 1/4 in; 28.2575 cm x 13.335 cm x 15.875 cm