Microscope
date: label: date made
content: ca 1870
name: label: maker
content: Murray & Heath
notes: label: Description
content: Small compound monocular with a four-sided stage. This, in turn, can be mounted on a tripod stand with a sub-stage mirror mounted to one leg. The “MURRAY & HEATH / LONDON” inscription refers to a firm that began in business in 1856, and that showed various instruments at the International Exhibition in London in 1862. By 1866, this instrument was known as a “Sea-Side Microscope.” It was, moreover, “provided with a triple separating English achromatic, but being furnished with the Microscopic Society’s thread, may be used with any object glass.”
label: Description
content: Several English opticians offered similar instruments.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Sea-Side Microscope,” <i>English Mechanic and Mirror of Science</i> 3 (1866): 405.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
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.210834.04
label: catalog number
content: M-09788
label: accession number
content: 210834
label: catalog number
content: 210834.04
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: case: 2 7/8 in x 7 3/4 in x 3 1/8 in; 7.3025 cm x 19.685 cm x 7.9375 cm
label: Measurements
content: microscope: 7 3/8 in x 2 in x 2 in; 18.7325 cm x 5.08 cm x 5.08 cm