Microscope
date: label: date made
content: 1730-1760
notes: label: Description
content: Brass screw barrel microscope with several lenses, ivory handle, six ivory slides, and wooden box covered with dark fish skin. James Wilson, an optical instrument maker in London, described the form in 1702. He did not make the first instruments of this sort, and never claimed to, but the form was often associated with him.
label: Description
content: Ref: James Wilson, “The Description and Manner of Using a Late Invented Set of Small Pocket-Microscopes, Made by James Wilson,” <i>Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London</i> 23 (1702): 1241-1247.
label: Description
content: Reginald Clay and Thomas Court, <i>The History of the Microscope</i> (London, 1932), pp. 44-50.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Pharmacy
label: Subject
content: Microscopy
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: European Apothecary
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content: Art
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Origin and Developement of The Microscope
label: Related Publication
content: Reginald S. Clay, B.A., D.Sc., F.Inst.P. and Thomas H. Court. The History of the Microscope
label: Related Publication
content: Urdang, George and Ferdinand William Nitardy. The Squibb Ancient Pharmacy: A Catalogue of the Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0664.0906
label: accession number
content: 1991.0664
label: catalog number
content: M-06302
label: collector/donor number
content: SAP 994
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0664.0906
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ivory (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: shargreen (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/4 in x 5 1/2 in x 3 3/4 in; 4.445 cm x 13.97 cm x 9.525 cm