Microscope Disc Holder
date: label: Date made
content: 1880
name: label: maker
content: R. & J. Beck
notes: label: Description
content: Microscope disc holder made by R. & J. Beck in London.
label: Description
content: Ref: Richard Beck, “The Revolving Disk Rotator for Opaque Objects,” Transactions of the Microscope Society of London n.s. 10 (1862): 101-103/
label: Description
content: “Beck’s Disk Holder,” in Carpenter, The Microscope and Its Revelations (London, 1862), pp. 773-774.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: location of prior holder
content: United States: New York
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: 1984.0309.01
label: accession number
content: 1984.0309
label: catalog number
content: 1984.0309.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Disc Holder
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood, mahogany (case, carrying material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 4 1/2 in x 3 in; 7.62 cm x 11.43 cm x 7.62 cm