Microscope
date: label: date made
content: ca 1903
name: label: maker
content: Ernst Leitz
notes: label: Description
content: Simon Flexner (1863-1946), a noted physician, scientist, and scientific administrator, used this microscope at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York, an organization of which he served, for many years, as the founding director.
label: Description
content: This is a compound monocular with coarse and fine focus, inclination joint, large square stage, sub-stage illuminating apparatus, sub-stage mirror, and wooden box with extra objectives. The inscription on the horseshoe base reads “E. LEITZ WETZLAR / No 75045.” The serial number indicates a date of around 1903.
label: Description
content: Ref: Ernst Leitz, <i>Microscopes and Accessory Apparatus</i> (Wetzlar, 1903), pp. xxx.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Hesse, Wetzlar
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: Gift of Rockefeller Institute through Dr. Detlev W. Bronk, President
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-09353
label: accession number
content: 224610
label: catalog number
content: M-09353
label: catalog number
content: 224610.05
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
label: Object Name
content: microscope case
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: case: 13 7/16 in x 7 in x 7 1/4 in; 34.13125 cm x 17.78 cm x 18.415 cm