Microscope
date: label: date made
content: 1933
name: label: maker
content: Spencer Lens Company
notes: label: Description
content: This low-power binocular microscope is a Spencer Model 56 with coarse and fine focus, rotating triple nosepiece (only one objective survives), large rectangular stage, and wooden box. The inscription reads “SPENCER / BUFFALO / USA / 121744.” The serial number indicates a date of 1933. A S.I. tag on the arm reads 31968.
label: Description
content: The Spencer Lens Co., in 1929, described their New Universal Binocular Microscopes No. 55 and No. 56 as “exceptionally large instruments” that met “in a most satisfactory way the demand for a large stage.” Each was equipped with Spencer’s new “Multiple Revolving Nosepiece” in which was dust-proof, and so arranged that the objectives could be easily removed and replaced with others.
label: Description
content: Ref: Spencer Lens Co., <i>Catalog of the More Popular Spencer Microscopes, Microtomes and Accessories</i> (Buffalo, N.Y., 1929), pp. 30-31.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Buffalo
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: Division of Marine Invertebrates, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-11419
label: accession number
content: 260035
label: catalog number
content: M-11419
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (microscope material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (microscope material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (case material)
label: Measurements
content: microscope: 24.3 cm x 13.6 cm x 18 cm; 9 9/16 in x 5 3/8 in x 7 1/16 in
label: Measurements
content: case: 35 cm x 19.7 cm x 23.4 cm; 13 3/4 in x 7 3/4 in x 9 3/16 in