Microscope Turntable
date: label: date made
content: ca 1880
name: label: maker
content: John W. Sidle & Co.
notes: label: Description
content: John W. Sidle described his new “Congress” microscope turntable at the National Microscopical Congress held in Indianapolis in 1878. An inscription on this example reads "The Congress. Patent Ap'd For / John W. Sidle & Co. / Lancaster, Pa." Sidle’s firm was absorbed into Queen & Co. a few years later.
label: Description
content: Ref: John W. Sidle, “Turn-Table for Mounting Microscopic Objects,” U.S. Patent 235,030 (Nov. 30, 1880).
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Lancaster
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1984.0679.01
label: catalog number
content: 1984.0679.01
label: accession number
content: 1984.0679
objectType: label: Object Name
content: turntable
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 in x 4 in x 2 3/4 in; 20.32 cm x 10.16 cm x 6.985 cm