Microscope
date: label: date made
content: ca 1907
name: label: maker
content: R. Fuess
notes: label: Description
content: This is a compound monocular designed for petrographic work. It has coarse and fine focus, analyzer in the tube, large circular mechanical stage, inclination joint, sub-stage polarizer, sub-stage mirror, horseshoe base, and wooden box. The inscription on the base reads “R. FUESS / STEGLITZ-BERLIN / 1380.” The serial number indicates a date of around 1907.
label: Description
content: Rudolph Fuess (1838-1917) began as an instrument maker in Berlin in 1859, acquired the workshop of Greiner & Geissler in 1876, and began making petrographic microscopes around that time. The firm moved to Steglitz, a suburb of Berlin, in 1891.
label: Description
content: This was owned and used by Charles Whitman Cross (1854-1959), an American geologist who specialized in the classification of igneous rocks, worked for the U.S. Geological Survey, and became an Associate in Petrology at the Smithsonian Institution.
label: Description
content: Ref: R. Fuess, <i>Optische Instrumente</i> (Steglitz, 1907), p. 43.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Berlin, Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Steglitz
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Microscopes
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Whitman Cross II
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2014.0264.01
label: catalog number
content: 2014.0264.01
label: accession number
content: 2014.0264
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: nickel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 1/4 in x 4 in x 6 in; 36.195 cm x 10.16 cm x 15.24 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in case: 15 7/8 in x 8 9/16 in x 7 5/8 in; 40.3225 cm x 21.74875 cm x 19.3675 cm