Microscope
date: label: date made
content: 1880-1891
name: label: maker
content: R. Fuess
notes: label: Description
content: Compound monocular with push-pull and fine focus, circular stage, sub-stage polarizer, sub-stage mirror, and black horseshoe base. The “R. Fuess Berlin” inscription refers to Rudolph Fuess (1838-1917), an optical instrument maker who opened a workshop in Berlin in 1865 and who, in the mid-1870s, began making microscopes to the specifications of Karl Heinrich Rosenbusch, professor of geology at Heidelberg University and an early proponent of petrographic microscopy. Fuess moved to Steglitz (a suburb of Berlin) in 1891.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Berlin, Berlin
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.328760
label: accession number
content: 308252
label: catalog number
content: 328760
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 36.6 cm x 9.3 cm x 12.1 cm; 14 7/16 in x 3 11/16 in x 4 3/4 in