Microtome
name: label: maker
content: Jung, Rudolph
notes: label: Description
content: This form of sliding microtome was suggested by Dr. Rudolf Thoma (1847-1923), Professor of Microscopic Anatomy at the University of Heidelberg. The first examples were produced by Rudolph Jung (1845-1900), a precision instrument maker in Heidelberg. By 1883, the form was well known in Europe and the United States. This example was probably made by Jung, and used by biologists at the Smithsonian.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Thoma’s Sliding Microtome,” The American Naturalist 17 (1883): 992-994.
label: Description
content: “Thoma’s Sliding Microtome,” Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society 3 (1883): 298-303.
label: Description
content: Chicago. World’s Columbian Exhibition, Special Catalogue of the Collective Exhibition of Scientific Instruments and Appliances Exhibited by the Deutsche Gesellshaft fur Mechanik und Optik (Berlin, 1893), pp. 24-34, on 26.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.163004.04
label: accession number
content: 163004
label: catalog number
content: 163004.04
label: catalog number
content: M-9785
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope coll object
label: Object Name
content: microtome
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall.: 3 3/4 in x 7 1/4 in x 4 1/2 in; 9.525 cm x 18.415 cm x 11.43 cm