Microscope
date: label: date made
content: ca 1850-1900
notes: label: Description
content: Rugged compound monocular with coarse and fine focus, square mechanical stage, trunion, and Lister limb with sub-stage mirror. The body is brass; the horseshoe base is black cast iron. The inscription reads “R. FIELD & SON / OPTICIANS / NEW STREET / BIRMINGHAM.” In 1855, Robert Field of Birmingham won the prize that the Society of Arts in London offered for the best microscope costing just three Guineas, and by 1861 he had sold some 1800 instruments of this sort.
label: Description
content: Ref: William Carpenter, <i>The Microscope and Its Revelations</i> (London, 1868), p. 58.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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.M-12346
label: catalog number
content: M-12346
label: catalog number
content: 282176.02
label: accession number
content: 282176
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 5/8 in x 6 1/2 in x 7 1/4 in; 37.1475 cm x 16.51 cm x 18.415 cm