Microscope
date: label: date made
content: ca 1918
name: label: maker
content: Spencer Lens Company
notes: label: Description
content: This compound monocular is a Spencer Model 44 with coarse and fine focus, curved arm, double nosepiece, square stage, inclination joint, sub-stage condenser and diaphragm, sub-stage mirror (this is missing), horseshoe base, and wooden box. The inscription reads “SPENCER / BUFFALO / USA / 47339.” The serial number indicates a date of 1918.
label: Description
content: The Spencer Lens Co. boasted in 1920 that the No. 44 was “the most popular of all Spencer Microscopes. Thousands are now in daily use in medical and general laboratories, also by physicians.” In 1930, it claimed that the No. 44 was “the most popular of all Spencer microscopes for routine work in the laboratory of the hospital, medical school, or general practitioner.” It was “simple in design and durable in construction,” and “fully meets all standard requirements.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Spencer Lens Co., <i>Catalog of Spencer Microscopes, Microtomes and Accessories</i> (Buffalo, 1920), pp. 32-33.
label: Description
content: Spencer Lens Co., <i>Catalogue</i> (Buffalo, N.Y., 1930), p. 17.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Buffalo
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-11515
label: accession number
content: 260035
label: catalog number
content: M-11515
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
label: Other Terms
content: microscope; Monocular; Compound
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 33.8 cm x 17.3 cm x 21 cm; 13 5/16 in x 6 13/16 in x 8 1/4 in
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 29 cm x 11.2 cm x 17.7 cm; 11 7/16 in x 4 7/16 in x 6 15/16 in