Microscope
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- Description
- Brass screw-barrel microscope of the sort that the English optician, James Wilson, introduced to the Royal Society in 1702. It has a detachable wooden handle; three condensing lenses, each in a brass holder; a brass bar holding six objectives; nine ivory sliders; and a forceps. A second brass tube with a large and almost flat condensing lens could be used to connect the microscope with a (missing) window plate and mirror, so that this could be used as a solar microscope.
- Colby College was established in 1813, and may have acquired this microscope at that time.
- Ref: Deborah Warner, “Projection Apparatus for Science in Antebellum America,” Rittenhouse 6 (1992): 87-94.
- Gerard L’E Turner, The Great Age of the Microscope (Bristol and New York, 1989), p. 236.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Colby College
- 19th century
- ID Number
- PH.329685
- accession number
- 273104
- catalog number
- 329685
- Object Name
- microscope
- solar microscope
- Physical Description
- brass (overall material)
- Measurements
- box: 3 in x 11 in x 7 in; 7.62 cm x 27.94 cm x 17.78 cm
- overall in box: 3 in x 11 in x 6 7/8 in; 7.62 cm x 27.94 cm x 17.4625 cm
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- Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
- Microscopes
- Science & Mathematics
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Science & Scientific Instruments
- Record ID
- nmah_1519156
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746af-180c-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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