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Live-Box with Micrometer, English, c. 1825-1850

Inventory Number 25355


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.25355

Item type
Object
Provenance
Deposited by the Royal Microscopical Society with their collection.
Primary inscriptions
.1: "1/200th"
Object type
Micrometer
Inventory No
25355
Accession Number
1970-101/part

Description

A live-box with a micrometre on the base of the glass. The diamond ruling is in squares, and measures 1/200 inch. The device has two copper alloy bars, from which extends a tube mounted with a glass disc. A glass cap in copper alloy setting pushes on to the top of this tube.