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Portable Compound Microscope in Case with Accessories, by James Swift, London, Before 1880

Inventory Number 48430

Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.48430

Subject
Microscopy
Item type
Object
Provenance
Lent by the Royal Microscopical Society. Presented to the Society by Peyton Todd Bowman Beale, 1930.
Primary inscriptions
'J.T 43, UNIVERSITY ST LONDON. W.C.' on barrel 'J. SWIFT LONDON' on each objective can
Inventory No
48430
Accession Number
1970-101/part

Description

A very small portable microscope in good condition with a copper alloy body tube containing a stage, an eye piece slots into the top and a mirror in a mount slots into the base. The base is assembled from three small brass rods for feet and a steel spike with a brass rod for the limb. There are three objectives in cans, marked '1/16 in IMMERSION', '1/4 in', and '1in'. There is also a lift-out box which carries three glass slips. The mahogany box case is lined with blue velvet.

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