Microscope
date: label: date made
content: ca 1874
notes: label: Description
content: In the mid-1870s, The Industrial Publication Co. of New York offered a “Handy Compound Pocket Microscope” that cost $7.50 and was “capable of giving a clear and well defined view of the general form of such objects as urinary deposits, diatoms, desmids, etc.” This example seems to be of that sort. It is a tiny monocular with push-pull focus, rectangular stage, sub-stage mirror, inclination joint, and circular base.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Handy Compound Pocket Microscope,” The Technologist, or Industrial Monthly 5 (1874): 108.
label: Description
content: The Industrial Publication Co., <i>Priced and Descriptive Catalogue of Microscopes and Accessory Apparatus and Instruments</i> (New York, n.d.): back cover.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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.256202.01
label: accession number
content: 256202
label: catalog number
content: 256202.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
label: Other Terms
content: microscope; Moncoular; Compound
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: nickel plating (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10.8 cm x 4.4 cm x 4.8 cm; 4 1/4 in x 1 23/32 in x 1 7/8 in