Binocular microscope, box and components

Made:: 1862-1866 in London and England

maker:: R and J Beck

Binocular microscope by R. and J. Beck, London, serial no. 4857, circa 1864, owned by Dame Lucy Aldrich-Blake (1865-1925)

Details

Category:: Microscopy (Wellcome)

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A43489

Materials:: lenses, glass, body tube & limb, brass, stage & stand, brass and box, mahogany

Measurements:: overall, vertical: height 428 mm
body tube: length 233 mm
body tube: diameter 32 mm
limb eaxtension: length 77 mm
limb: length 178 mm
base: length 183 mm
base: width 125 mm
box: length 403 mm
box: width 156 mm
box: height 173 mm

type:: compound binocular microscopes

credit:: Wigram

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