Compound monocular microscope

Made:: France and England

Compound monocular microscope
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Compound monocular microscope, with very unusual ball socketed pillar and tilting stage, perhaps metallurgical, French or English, second half 19th century

Details

Category:: Microscopy (Wellcome)

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A56562

Materials:: base, iron, body tube, brass, body tube support, brass, limb, brass, stage plate, brass and stage base, iron

Measurements:: overall: height 245 mm
bory tube: length 150 mm
body tube: diameter 24 mm
stage: diameter 70 mm
base: length 117 mm
base: width 100 mm

type:: metallurgical microscopes

credit:: Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)

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