Microscope
date: label: date made
content: ca 1911
name: label: maker
content: Leitz, Ernst
notes: label: Description
content: Compound monocular with coarse and fine adjustment, rotating triple nosepiece, large circular stage, inclination joint, sub-stage condenser and iris diaphragm, horseshoe base, and wooden box with extra objectives. The “E. Leitz Wetzlar / No. 141938” inscription on the base indicates a date around 1911.
label: Description
content: Ref: Ernst Leitz, <i>Microscopes and Accessory Apparatus</i> (Wetzlar, 1907).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Hesse, Wetzlar
label: associated place
content: United States: Maryland, Edgewater
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: Clyde P. Reeves
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-14737
label: catalog number
content: M-14737
label: accession number
content: 300971
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
label: Other Terms
content: microscope; Monocular; Compound
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brown (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: yellow (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 34.4 cm x 17.5 cm x 19.8 cm; 13 9/16 in x 6 7/8 in x 7 13/16 in
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 30 cm x 11.5 cm x 15.9 cm; 11 13/16 in x 4 1/2 in x 6 1/4 in