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Microscope Condenser with Cap, Designed by James Edmunds, English, c.1879

Inventory Number 92683


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.92683

Subject
Microscopy
Item type
Object
Provenance
Lent by the Royal Microscopical Society in 1970. Presented to the Society by John Edmund Ingpen, 1917.
Primary inscriptions
'Dr Edmunds' Condenser.'
Inventory No
92683
Accession Number
1970-101/part

Description

An immersion paraboloid illuminator illuminator designed to assist the resolution of diatoms. Illuminator is housed in a sub stage mount, the barrel of which is engraved with the name of the manufacturer. A detachable cap protects the illuminator itself.

See also 89012.