Microscope
date: label: date made
content: ca 1850-1900
name: label: maker
content: Baker, Charles
notes: label: Description
content: Compound monocular suitable for student use with coarse and fine focus, trunnion, square mechanical stage, Lister limb with support for sub-stage mirror, and Y-shaped base. The “Baker / 244 High Holborn / LONDON 1” inscription on the base refers to Charles Baker, a prolific instrument maker who began in business in 1851.
label: Description
content: This may have been used by John Bernard Smith (1858-1912), a lawyer who, in 1884, became an assistant to J. V. Riley, entomologist at the U.S.D.A. Smith became Prof. of Entomology at Rutgers College and entomologist at the New Jersey Agricultural College Experiment Station, in 1889. He was known especially for his work with mosquito eradication.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
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: Rutgers University, Department of Physics
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.327632
label: accession number
content: 268279
label: catalog number
content: 327632
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 40.4 cm x 17.3 cm x 16.6 cm; 15 7/8 in x 6 13/16 in x 6 9/16 in