Microscope
date: label: date made
content: 1910
name: label: maker
content: Spencer Lens Company
notes: label: Description
content: The Spencer Model 20 designed for “advanced laboratory research and clinical work of the most exacting character” is a compound monocular microscope with coarse and fine focus, handle arm, triple nosepiece, square stage, inclination joint, sub-stage iris diaphragm, sub-stage mirror, horseshoe base, and wooden case covered with leatherette. The inscription on the base of this example reads “SPENCER LENS CO. / BUFFALO, N.Y. / 13876.” The serial number indicates a date of 1910.
label: Description
content: Ref: Spencer Lens Co., <i>Microscopes and Accessories</i> (Buffalo, 1914), pp. 20-21.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Buffalo
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
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content: Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
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content: Microscopes
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Robert Leonard
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0689.01.1
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0689.01.1
label: accession number
content: 1991.0689
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 30.4 cm x 10.5 cm x 15.3 cm; 11 31/32 in x 4 1/8 in x 6 1/32 in