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Two Wenham Oblique Microscope Illuminators, possibly by Ross, English, c. 1872

Inventory Number 65343


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.65343

Subject
Microscopy
Item type
Object
Makers
Ross
Provenance
Lent by the Royal Microscopical Society in 1970. Presented to the Society by Sydney Charles Akehurst October 1934.
Primary inscriptions
Unsigned and undated
Inventory No
65343
Accession Number
1970-101/part

Description

Two Wenham Oblique illuminators, differing only in the length of their tubes. Intended to be used for dark-ground illumination at high powers. Both illuminators have smooth tubes to be pushed onto sub stage apparatus.