Microscope
date: label: date made
content: mid 19th century
name: label: maker
content: Chevallier, Jean-Gabrielle-Augustin
notes: label: Description
content: Drum microscope with push-pull focus, rectangular stage with screws at either side, bullseye lens on a brass arm attached to the stage, and mirror in the cylindrical base. The “Maison de / l’Ingr. Chevallier Opten / Place du Pont-Neuf, 15 / Paris” inscription refers to Jean Gabriel August Chevallier (1778-1848), an important French optician who sold various microscopes, and whose shop was continued, by his son-in-law, well into the 1870s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
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.256202.02.01
label: catalog number
content: M-10898
label: catalog number
content: 256202.02
label: accession number
content: 256202
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 in x 3.25 cm; 30.48 cm x 1 1/4 in