Microscope
date: label: date made
content: ca 1892
name: label: maker
content: Ernst Leitz
notes: label: Description
content: Compound monocular with coarse and fine focus, double nosepiece, square stage, inclination joint with handle, sub-stage diaphragm, sub-stage mirror, and horseshoe base. The inscription reads “E. Leitz Wetzlar / No 24997.” The serial number indicates a date of around 1892. The back of the base is marked “48?”
label: Description
content: According to the donor, this microscope was used at the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.
label: Description
content: Ref: Ernst Leitz, <i>Petrological and Metallographic Microscopes </i> (Wetzlar, 1910), pp. 14-17.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Hesse, Wetzlar
topic: label: Subject
content: Modern Physics
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Modern Physics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Ronald S. Wilkinson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1994.0397.05
label: serial number
content: 24997
label: catalog number
content: 1994.0397.05
label: accession number
content: 1994.0397
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Microscope
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 31.7 cm x 10.3 cm x 13.2 cm; 12 15/32 in x 4 1/16 in x 5 3/16 in