Microscope
date: label: date made
content: ca 1870
name: label: maker
content: Murray & Heath
notes: label: Description
content: This is a small compound monocular with rack-and-pinion focus, rectangular stage with clips, and separate condensing lens in brass frame. It could be hand-held or stood upright. It was collected by Richard Halsted Ward (1837-1917), an American medical microscopist, or his son, Henry B. Ward, a pioneering parasitologist. The “MURRAY & HEATH / LONDON” inscription refers to a firm that began in business in 1856, and that showed various instruments at the International Exhibition in London in 1862.
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: Miss Charlotte B. Ward
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-09724
label: accession number
content: 174919
label: catalog number
content: M-09724
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
label: Other Terms
content: microscope; Monocular; Compound
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 19.4 cm x 6.1 cm x 6.2 cm; 7 5/8 in x 2 3/8 in x 2 7/16 in
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 7.3 cm x 19.2 cm x 9.6 cm; 2 7/8 in x 7 9/16 in x 3 3/4 in