Microscope
date: label: date made
content: 1938
name: label: maker
content: A. C. Gilbert Company
notes: label: Description
content: This is a simple compound monocular with push-tube focus, inclination joint, square stage, sub-stage mirror, and square base. It comes in a green wooden chest which also holds slides, apparatus for simple chemical experiments, and a “Microscope Manual of Instructions.”
label: Description
content: This was made and marketed by A.C. Gilbert, a toy company that was established in Westville, Ct., in 1909, and that introduced the Erector Set a few years later. Gilbert began offering microscopes for children in 1932.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, New Haven
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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1983.0656.01
label: catalog number
content: 1983.0656.01
label: accession number
content: 1983.0656
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
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content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
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content: rubber (overall material)
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content: green (overall color)
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content: black (overall color)
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content: red (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: yellow (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 37 cm x 25.5 cm x 9.7 cm; 14 9/16 in x 10 1/16 in x 3 13/16 in