- Item type
- Object
- Provenance
- Presented by Dr. E. G. T. Liddell in 1937. Previously used by his father, John Liddell, M.D., of Harrogate.
- Primary inscriptions
- Signed on a brass plaque: "CAMBRIDGE SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENT COMPANY 1893".
- Object type
- Microtome
- Dimensions
- Height: 335mm Width: 175mm Depth: 310mm Weight: 8950g
- Inventory No
- 91777
- Accession Number
- 1937-31
Description
This was a very successful design of microtome. The specimen is mounted on a paraffin wax block at one end of the lever that activates the pass across the knife. The advance is achieved mechanically by a screww acting at one end of a second lever that carries the mounting for the first one. The cutting blade is a cut-thrat razor. The design was introduced in 1885 by Horace Darwin, and this is an example of the original form, which was modified in 1900.
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