CK Olympus Tokyo Inverted Microscope
date: label: date made
content: before 1995
label: date made
content: circa 1970
name: label: user
content: Genentech, Inc.
label: maker
content: Olympus
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This inverted microscope was used at Genentech, a biotechnology company. In a traditional light microscope (the kind most often used in high school biology classes), the light source comes from below a slide-mounted specimen and the observer views it from above. By contrast, an inverted microscope’s light source comes from above and the sample is viewed from the bottom.
label: Description (Brief)
content: This configuration eliminates the need for slide-mounting the specimen for observation and allows the observer to view samples in flasks or petri dishes. For this reason the inverted microscope is particularly useful in work with living cells and tissue culture, allowing both observation and manipulation of the sample.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Sources:
label: Description (Brief)
content: Goldstein, David. “Inverted Microscope.” Microscopy-UK. 1998. http://microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/indexmag.html?http://microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artjul98/invert.html
label: Description (Brief)
content: Olympus. “Inverted biological microscope.” http://www.olympus-global.com/en/corc/history/story/micro/headstand/
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: used
content: United States: California, South San Francisco
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content: Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
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content: Biotechnology and Genetics
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Genentech
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2012.0198.60
label: accession number
content: 2012.0198
label: catalog number
content: 2012.0198.60
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
label: Object Name
content: microscope, inverted
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 18 1/2 in x 11 3/8 in x 7 1/2 in; 46.99 cm x 28.8925 cm x 19.05 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 17 3/4 in x 15 in x 11 1/2 in; 45.085 cm x 38.1 cm x 29.21 cm