Microscope
date: label: date made
content: ca 1870
name: label: maker
content: Nachet et Fils
notes: label: Description
content: Compound monocular microscope with coarse and fine focus, circular stage, inclination joint, support for sub-stage mirror, solid base, and wooden box with three eyepieces, four objectives, and a bullseye condenser with brass stand. The “NACHET / ET FILS / à Paris / rue St Séverin 17” inscription refers to a firm that began in business in 1840, and moved to this address in 1862. Weston College in Massachusetts gave this to the Smithsonian, but as that college was founded in the 1920s, the microscope was probably purchased for use at another Jesuit institution in the United States.
label: Description
content: Ref: Nachet et Fils, <i>Fabriques des Instruments de Micrographie</i> (Paris, 1872), pp. 9-10.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
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: Weston College, Physics Department
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.328480
label: accession number
content: 271661
label: catalog number
content: 328480
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (microscope material)
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content: glass (microscope material)
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content: metal (case material)
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content: velvet (case material)
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content: glass (disjoint parts material)
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content: metal (disjoint parts material)
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content: leather (disjoint parts material)
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content: metal (microscope material)
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content: wood (case material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (disjoint parts material)
label: Measurements
content: case: 12.3 cm x 31.5 cm x 19.7 cm; 4 13/16 in x 12 3/8 in x 7 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: microscope (not including body tube): 21.6 cm x 8.4 cm x 13.6 cm; 8 1/2 in x 3 5/16 in x 5 3/8 in