Microscope
date: label: date made
content: ca 1869
name: label: maker
content: Crouch, Henry
notes: label: Description
content: Compound binocular with interocular adjustment, coarse and fine focus, trunnion, triple nosepiece, circular mechanical stage, sub-stage diaphragm, sub-stage mirror, and wooden box with extra lenses. The inscription on the curved base reads “HENRY CROUCH / LONDON / 1209.”
label: Description
content: Henry Crouch and his brother William were in business in London by 1864, offering relatively inexpensive microscopes, and noting that they were “From Smith, Beck & Beck.” Henry Crouch was working on his own by 1869. James W. Queen & Co., of Philadelphia, was selling Crouch microscopes by 1870. Crouch spent several months in the United States in 1876, displaying his wares at the Centennial Exhibition, and meeting American microscopists.
label: Description
content: Richard Halsted Ward, physician and professor at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, showed an instrument of this sort at an American microscope meeting in 1869. James Milton Flint—a surgeon with the U.S. Navy who had been detailed to the United States National Museum in 1881, to take care of its newly established Section of Materia Medica—showed another at an exhibition in 1891.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Price List of Microscopes Manufactured by Henry Crouch, of London,” <i>American Journal of Microscopy</i> 2 (1877).
label: Description
content: “Report on the Microscopes and Microscopical Apparatus, Exhibited at the Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, At Salem, Mass., August, 1869,” <i>Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science</i> 18 (1869): 303-306, on 306.
label: Description
content: James M. Flint, “Apparatus for the Exhibition of Microscopic Objects,” <i>Proceedings of the American Society of Microscopists</i> 13 (1891): 54-58.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
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: 2009.0116.09
label: catalog number
content: 2009.0116.09
label: accession number
content: 2009.0116
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (microscope material)
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content: glass (microscope material)
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content: velvet (case material)
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content: metal (case material)
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content: brass (microscope material)
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content: wood (case material)
label: Measurements
content: microscope: 37.2 cm x 14.2 cm x 16.1 cm; 14 5/8 in x 5 9/16 in x 6 5/16 in
label: Measurements
content: case: 16.9 cm x 40.2 cm x 21.6 cm; 6 5/8 in x 15 13/16 in x 8 1/2 in