Microscope
date: label: date made
content: 1870-1878
name: label: maker
content: E. Hartnack & A. Prazmowski
notes: label: Description
content: Compound monocular microscope with coarse and fine focus, inclination joint, and horseshoe base. The stage has been customized for reading spectrographs and measuring the distance from one line to another. The “E. Hartnack & A. Prazmowski / Rue Bonaparte 1 / Paris” inscription on the tube refers to a French microscope firm that was in business, as such, from 1870 to 1885.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Optics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Vassar College
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0318.08
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0318.8
label: accession number
content: 1980.0318
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 in x 8 5/16 in x 5 in; 27.94 cm x 21.11375 cm x 12.7 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall; microscope: 11 3/4 in x 8 5/16 in x 5 in; 29.845 cm x 21.11375 cm x 12.7 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall; box: 4 1/8 in x 11 in x 6 1/16 in; 10.4775 cm x 27.94 cm x 15.39875 cm