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Microscope Condenser with Cap, Designed by James Edmunds, London, c.1879

Inventory Number 89012


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.89012

Subject
Microscopy
Item type
Object
Provenance
Lent by the Royal Microscopical Society in 1970. Presented to the Society by P. T. Bowman Beale in 1907.
Physical material
.1: Copper alloy
Glass
Inventory No
89012
Accession Number
1970-101/part

Description

An immersion paraboloid illuminator. The glass dome is set in a copper alloy mount and has a flattened upper surface. The cylindrical body is hollow, and the cap pushes onto the top to protect the glass.

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