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'Challenge' Compound Microscope with Case and Accessories, by J. Swift & Son, London, c.1900

Inventory Number 96358


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.96358

Subject
Microscopy
Item type
Object
Provenance
Lent by the Royal Microscopical Society in 1970. Dixon-Nuttall bequest, September 1929.
Primary inscriptions
"J. SWIFT & SON, LONDON." on base.
Object type
Microscope
Dimensions
Weight: 11.9kg
Inventory No
96358
Accession Number
1970-101/part

Description

Challenge' compound microscope with case, objective in a can, empty objective can, two pairs of eyepieces, substage Nicol prism polarizer, threaded copper alloy collar, bull's eye lens and a lens in a tube.