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History of Science Museum

Wooden Box of Slides

Inventory Number 69614


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.69614

Subject
Microscopy
Item type
Object
Object type
Microscope slide
Inventory No
69614

Description

Wooden box containing 49 lantern slides. They include photographic negatives of collieries, miners, mining machinery and John James Waterson, a Scottish physicist and neglected pioneer of the kinetic theory of gasses. The rest are photographic negatives diagrams of microorganisms.