Triple bodied microscope attributed to C.D. Ahrens

Made:: 1860-1880 in London

maker:: C D Ahrens

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Triple bodied microscope attributed to C.D. Ahrens, English, 1860-1880

Details

Category:: Microscopy (Wellcome)

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A56774

Materials:: lenses & prisms, glass, body tubes & limb, brass, pillar & base, brass and stage & cell housing, brass, blackened

Measurements:: overall: height 360 mm
body tube: length 227 mm
body tube: diameter 35 mm
pillar: height 173 mm
limb extension: length 55 mm
base: width 209 mm
base: length 180 mm

type:: triple-bodied compound microscopes

credit:: Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)

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