Microscope
notes: label: Description
content: Made of steel and black iron, this small and rugged compound monocular has a screw focus, square stage, clips for the slide below the stage sub-stage mirror, and tri-leg base. It is in the field kit owned by Paul Sydney Conger (1897-1979), a botanist who studied diatoms under the auspices of the Carnegie Institution of Washington and the Smithsonian Institution.
label: Description
content: The “WINKEL-ZEISS / GŐTTINGEN / Nr. 72116” inscription on the tube refers to a firm founded in 1857 by Rudolf Winkel, a precision mechanic in Göttingen. The Carl Zeiss firm became the largest stockholder in 1911. The firm’s logo became “WINKEL-ZEISS” in the late 1920s. The two firms merged in 1954.
label: Description
content: Ref: Winkel-Zeiss, <i>Klein-Microscop ST</i> (Göttingen, 1939).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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: Norman Conger and Alice Conger Patterson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1995.0128.38.01
label: catalog number
content: 1995.0128.38.01
label: accession number
content: 1995.0128
objectType: label: Object Name
content: field microscope
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 16.8 cm x 9 cm x 5.2 cm; 6 5/8 in x 3 9/16 in x 2 1/16 in