Microscope
date: label: date made
content: 1790-1830
name: label: maker
content: Banks, Robert
notes: label: Description
content: This simple microscope fits into and stands on a small wooden box. It has a brass stand, four lenses that can be used singly or severally, a circular stage with forceps, and a focus mechanism, but no sub-stage mirror. There are also ivory sliders, mirror, and scalpel. The “Banks, London Math. Inst. Mkr. to the Prince of Wales” inscription refers to Robert Banks (or Bancks), an instrument maker in business from the 1790s to the early 1830s.
label: Description
content: Ref: R. Bancks, <i>Directions To Use The Improved Pocket Microscope</i> (London, n.d.).
label: Description
content: G. L’E. Turner, <i>The Great Age of the Microscope</i> (Bristol and New York, 1989), p. 81.
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: MG.308784.02
label: catalog number
content: 308784.02
label: accession number
content: 308784
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: velvet (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/4 in x 3 7/8 in x 2 7/16 in; 10.795 cm x 9.8425 cm x 6.19125 cm