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Reflecting Objective in Case with Tightening Screws, by Beck, London, ?c.1957

Inventory Number 10723

Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.10723

Subject
Microscopy
Item type
Object
Makers
Beck
Provenance
Presented by the Department of Materials, University of Surrey, in 2002 (accessioned in 2013). RMS-MHS Collection of Twentieth-Century Microscopes.
Object type
Microscope accessory
Inventory No
10723
Accession Number
2013-19

Description

Reflecting objective (No. 4049) x 36 NA 0.5 objective with cover-glass correction collar in fitted case, with instruction leaflet.

One of two (see Inv 10722) produced in conjunction with the Wheatstone Laboratory and the Medical Research Council's Biophysics Research Unit, King's College London, c.1957.

Designed to be chromatic-error free and to transmit all radiations from the infra-red to the ultra-violet. See Beck 1957 brochure for more detailed specifications.

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