Solar microscope with circular shutter plate and rack barrel

Made:: 1830-1870

SMG00107649
Science Museum Group
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Solar microscope with circular shutter plate and rack barrel, unsigned but probably English, circa 1850

Details

Category:: Microscopy (Wellcome)

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A56814

Materials:: rack barrel, brass, cylinder, brass, screen, brass, carrying plate, brass and lens, glass

Measurements:: overall: length 545 mm
rack barrel: length 132 mm
rack barrel: diameter 35 mm
cylinder: length 227 mm
cylinder: diameter 72 mm
screen: diameter 141 mm
mirror: length 220 mm
mirror: width 78 mm

type:: solar microscopes

credit:: Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)

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