Objective mirror assembly for a reflecting microscope

Made:: 1954-1964 in Bristol

Objective mirror assembly for a reflecting microscope comprising large aspheric aluminised speculum metal primary mirror made by I. H. Ford on C. R. Burch's mirror figuring machine at Bristol (Inv. No. 1986-113), plus a small aluminised spherical mirror, made from part of a ball bearing, in a kinematically designed mount allowing backlash-free adjustment of the primary mirror in the x and y directions and the secondary mirror in the z direction, made between about 1954 and 1964. Also an engineering drawing of the assembly.

Details

Category:: Microscopes

Object Number:: 2001-8

Materials:: speculum metal and metals

type:: microscope objective mirror assembly

credit:: Ford, I. H.

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Objective mirror assembly for a reflecting microscope

Materials:: speculum metal and metals

Object Number:: 2001-8 Pt1

type:: microscope objective mirror assembly

Engineering drawing

Engineering drawing, c. 1954, of the objective mirror assembly for a reflecting microscope designed by I. H. Ford and made using C. R. Burch's mirror figuring machine at Bristol (Inv. No. 1986-113)