Microscope
date: label: date made
content: 1886-1896
name: label: maker
content: James W. Queen & Co.
notes: label: Description
content: This is a compound monocular with rack-and-pinion, trunnion, tri-leg base, and one Crouch objective. The stage, large, solid and circular, has a screw that moves it from side to side, and a “J. W. Queen & Co. / PHILADA / 1184” inscription. A printed paper tag in the wooden box reads “JAMES W. QUEEN & CO.” While this instrument was obviously sold by Queen, it may have been made by Bausch & Lomb. Indeed, it resembles the American Type (or Library) stand, model DD, that Bausch & Lomb described as “a good working, simple instrument” designed “to take the place of the unreliable cheap foreign microscopes.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Bausch & Lomb, <i>Microscopes, Microtomes, Apparatus for Photo-Micrography</i> (Rochester, 1896), pp. 30-31.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Division of Marine Invertebrates, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-11519
label: accession number
content: 260035
label: catalog number
content: 260035.13
label: catalog number
content: M-11519
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: case: 13 7/8 in x 8 9/16 in x 6 5/8 in; 35.2425 cm x 21.74875 cm x 16.8275 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 1/8 in x 5 1/2 in x 6 1/2 in; 28.2575 cm x 13.97 cm x 16.51 cm