Microscope
date: label: date made
content: ca 1830
name: label: maker
content: Cary, William
notes: label: Description
content: Convertible instrument that can be used as a simple microscope or a compound mocroscope. It has rack and pinion, stage, and sub-stage mirror, and it fits into and stands on a small wooden box. The “Carey, LONDON” inscription refers to a large, long-lived, and prolific family of instruments makers known variously as Cary and Carey. Charles Gould, an employee of William Cary, described the form in 1827, and probably devised it as well.
label: Description
content: Ref: William Gould, <i>The Companion to the Microscope and a Description of C. Gould’s Improved Pocket Compound Microscope, Which has all the Uses of the Single, Compound, and Opaque Microscopes</i> (London, 1827).
label: Description
content: G. L’E. Turner, <i>The Great Age of the Microscope</i> (Bristol, 1989), pp. 79-85.
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.308784.01
label: catalog number
content: 308784.01
label: accession number
content: 308784
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 5/16 in x 3 3/4 in x 3 1/4 in; 3.33375 cm x 9.525 cm x 8.255 cm