Microscope
date: label: date made
content: 1856-1862
name: label: maker
content: Nachet et Fils
notes: label: Description
content: Small compound monocular microscope with coarse and fine focus, square stage, inclination joint, condenser on an arm, sub-stage mirror, and solid base. The “NACHET ET FILS / rue Serpente, 16, Paris” inscription refers to an important French optical firm that was begun by Camille Sebastien Nachet in 1839, that became Nachet et Fils around mid-century, and that moved from this address around 1862.
label: Description
content: Ref: Nachet et Fils, <i>Catalogue Descriptive des Instruments de Micrographie</i> (Paris, 1863), p. 12.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
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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: Albert Fitch Memorial Library, Pennsylvania College of Optometry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0682.01
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0682.01
label: accession number
content: 1991.0682
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 25.9 cm x 8 cm x 11.8 cm; 10 3/16 in x 3 5/32 in x 4 21/32 in