Microscope
date: label: date made
content: ca 1930
name: label: maker
content: Zeiss, Carl
notes: label: Description
content: Stereoscopic microscope with coarse and fine focus, square stage, sub-stage diaphragm, sub-stage mirror, and wooden box with extra lenses. The inscriptions read “CARL ZEISS / JENA” and “GERMANY” and “215763.” A property tag reads “U.S.N.M. / Division of Marine Invertebrates / SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION / 31969.”
label: Description
content: Zeiss began marketing stereoscopic microscopes in 1897, noting that the idea had originated with Horatio Saltstall Greenough (1845-1916), an American zoologist and, incidentally, son of the sculptor, Horatio Greenough. Zeiss introduced this model XA stand in the early 1930s.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Greenough’s Stereoscopic Microscope and Its Auxiliary Appliances,” <i>Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society</i> 18 (1898): 469-473.
label: Description
content: Carl Zeiss, <i>Zeiss Microscopes and Accessories</i> (Jena, 1934), pp. 71-72.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Thuringia, Jena
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: Division of Marine Invertebrates, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-11420
label: accession number
content: 260035
label: catalog number
content: M-11420
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (microscope material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (microscope material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (case material)
label: Measurements
content: microscope: 32.8 cm x 13.8 cm x 18.5 cm; 12 15/16 in x 5 7/16 in x 7 5/16 in
label: Measurements
content: case: 36.9 cm x 25.1 cm x 23.4 cm; 14 1/2 in x 9 7/8 in x 9 3/16 in