Microscope
date: label: date made
content: 1961
name: label: maker
content: Klinger, Robert Lee
notes: label: Description
content: Giuseppi Campani (1635-1715) was one of the first opticians to make screw-barrel microscopes. One of these instruments signed “Giuseppe Campani in Roma” was acquired by Sir Frank Crisp, a wealthy English microscopist, and later sold to the Science Museum in London. This is a replica of that instrument. It is made of wood, and has a simple brass stand. It is marked “Made by R. L. Klinger, 1961.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Reginald Clay and Thomas Court, <i>The History of the Microscope</i> (London, 1932), pp. 79-81.
label: Description
content: John Mayall, Jr., <i>Cantor Lectures on the Microscope</i> (London, 1886), p. 10.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-09901
label: catalog number
content: M-9901
label: accession number
content: 237910
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
label: Object Name
content: microscope, replica
label: Other Terms
content: microscope; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9.7 cm x 3.1 cm; 3 13/16 in x 1 1/4 in