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Gould-Type Microscope, by John Preston Cutts, London, c. 1836

Inventory Number 76481


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.76481

Subject
Microscopy
Item type
Object
Provenance
Lent by the Royal Microscopical Society. Presented by Edward Milles Nelson, May 1903
Primary inscriptions
"I.P. CUTTS, MANUFACTURER OF TELESCOPES, SEXTANTS, QUADRANTS, MATHEMATICAL DRAWING INSTRUMENTS Rules, Scales, & C GOLD SILVER SHELL & BLUED STEEL SPECTACLES &C SHEFFIELD & LONDON." on trade card on underside of box
Physical material
Brass and glass
Object type
microscope
Dimensions
Height: 240mm
Inventory No
76481
Accession Number
1970-101/part

Description

Gould type microscope attached to wood box. Microscope arries single ivory slider with four specimen windows. Box contains two blank ivory sliders.