Microscope
date: label: date made
content: 1830-1847
name: label: maker
content: Bate, Robert Brettell
notes: label: Description
content: This is a low-power brass microscope with lens holder, stage, sub-stage mirror, and cylindrical stand. It fits into and stands on a small leather-covered box. Robert Bancks (or Banks), a mathematical and optical instrument maker in London, designed the form around 1830. This example was collected by Richard Halsted Ward (1837-1917), a noted medical microscopist, or his son, Henry B. Ward, a early parasitologist. The “Bate / LONDON” inscription on the stage refers to Robert Brettell Bate.
label: Description
content: Ref: Brian J. Ford, “Charles Darwin and Robert Brown—their microscopes and the microscopic image,” <i>infocus</i> (Sept. 15, 2009): 19-28.
label: Description
content: Anita McConnell, <i>R. B. Bate of the Poultry, 1782-1847: The Life and Times of a Scientific Instrument Maker</i> (London, 1993).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
label: associated place
content: United States: Illinois, Urbana
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-09731
label: accession number
content: 174919
label: catalog number
content: M-9731
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
label: Other Terms
content: microscope; Aquatic
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (microscope material)
label: Physical Description
content: leather (case material)
label: Physical Description
content: velvet (case material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: blue (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: case: 3.3 cm x 12.9 cm x 10.8 cm; 1 5/16 in x 5 1/16 in x 4 1/4 in
label: Measurements
content: microscope: 11 cm x 10.5 cm; 4 5/16 in x 4 1/8 in