Microscope
date: label: date made
content: ca 1910
name: label: maker
content: Zeiss, Carl
notes: label: Description
content: This is an example of the Stand 4 that Zeiss introduced in the early twentieth century. It is a compound monocular with coarse and fine focus, triple nosepiece, circular stage, trunnion, sub-stage diaphragm and condenser, sub-stage mirror, horseshoe base, and wooden box with three extra lenses. The inscription on the eye tube reads “CARL ZEISS / JENA / NO 29291.” Those on the stage read “CARL ZEISS / JENA” and “GERMANY” and “1200.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Carl Zeiss, <i>Zeiss Microscopes and Microscopical Accessories</i> (Jena, 1906), pp. 52-53.
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-11424
label: accession number
content: 260035
label: catalog number
content: M-11424
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (case material)
label: Physical Description
content: velvet (case material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (microscope material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (microscope material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (case material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (microscope material)
label: Measurements
content: case: 36.8 cm x 20.8 cm x 19.9 cm; 14 1/2 in x 8 3/16 in x 7 13/16 in
label: Measurements
content: microscope: 32.3 cm x 10.6 cm x 17.8 cm; 12 11/16 in x 4 3/16 in x 7 in