Museum microscope by T. Winter of 9 New Bond Street

Made:: 1794-1849 in London

maker:: Thomas Winter

Museum microscope by T. Winter of 9 New Bond Street, with accessories, in mahogany case with lock and key

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Category:: Microscopes

Object Number:: 1913-280

Materials:: brass, ivory, glass, mahogany and metal

Measurements:: case, overall: 299 x 157 x 132 mm
microscope with compound body, approx: 270 x 115 mm

type:: museum microscope

credit:: Thomas H. Court

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Museum microscope by Thomas Winter of 9 New Bond Street, London

Museum microscope by Thomas Winter, 1810

Museum microscope by Thomas Winter of 9 New Bond Street, London, England, c. 1810

Possibly invented as a special commission, Thomas Winter's "museum microscope" demonstrates academic and scientific interest within upper-class wealth and culture.

Functionality is combined with elegance of design, with interesting specimens set into a rotating ivory mount. The microscope is therefore a "museum" of specimens, with a collection that can be easily viewed again and again.

Measurements:: overall: 260 mm x x , 110 mm, .735kg

Materials:: copper (alloy) , glass and ivory

Object Number:: 1913-280 Pt1

type:: museum microscope

Image ©: The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Case for Winter's museum microscope

Mahogany case for museum microscope by T. Winter of 9 New Bond Street, with lock and key, and with internal drawer containing simple microscope body (not a correct fit), live box (one glass face concave, one plane), ivory disc (blackened one side), concave lens, glass disc, brush, ivory container with mica slide cover discs (talcs) in one end and retaining springs for them in the other, and list of specimens.