Microscope
date: label: date made
content: 1830-1840
name: label: maker
content: Abraham
notes: label: Description
content: Compound monocular with rack-and-pinion focus, inclination joint, and tri-leg base. The stage is missing as is the sub-stage mirror. The “Improved Compound Microscope BY ABRAHAM LIVERPOOL” inscription on one foot refers to a Liverpool instrument firm that was in business from 1817 to 1860. Philip Carpenter, a London optician, described a similar microscope in 1825.
label: Description
content: Ref: Philip Carpenter, <i>A Description of Carpenter’s Improved Compound Microscope for Opake & Transparent Objects</i> (London, 1825).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, Liverpool, Liverpool
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: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.302606.256
label: accession number
content: 302606
label: catalog number
content: 302606.256
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
label: Other Terms
content: microscope; Compound
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 40.8 cm x 22.3 cm x 17.4 cm; 16 1/16 in x 8 3/4 in x 6 7/8 in