Microscope
date: label: date made
content: ca 1926
name: label: maker
content: Ernst Leitz
notes: label: Description
content: Compound monocular with coarse and fine focus, triple nosepiece, circular mechanical stage, inclination joint, sub-stage apparatus with condenser, and sub-stage mirror. The inscription on the black curvaceous base reads “ERNST LEITZ / WETZLAR / No 237868.” The serial number indicates a date around 1926. Leitz offered this as a “Medium-Sized Research Microscope” that it incorporated the fine adjustment mechanism developed and patented by August Bauer.
label: Description
content: Ref: Ernst Leitz, <i>Leitz Microscopes</i> (New York, 1929), pp. 66-67.
label: Description
content: August Bauer, “Microscope,” U.S. Patent 1,429,577 (1922).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Hesse, Wetzlar
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: 1984.0640.01
label: accession number
content: 1984.0640
label: catalog number
content: 1984.0640.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 34.4 cm x 12.8 cm x 15.7 cm; 13 9/16 in x 5 1/16 in x 6 3/16 in