Microscope Live Box with Micrometer Scale in Box, by Andrew Pritchard, London, c. 1846

Subject: Microscopy
Item type: Object
Makers: Andrew Pritchard
Provenance: Lent by the Royal Microscopical Society in 1970. Presented to the Royal Microscopical Society by John Cooper Webb, 16th April 1910
Primary inscriptions: .1: "1/100th" on bar .2: "Pritchard's Live-box with Micrometer scale ruled in squares of 1/100 in. on bottom plate. / Presented by Mr John Cooper Webb F.E.S. March 16, 1910" on label on top of lid.
Inventory No: 27411

Description

A copper alloy live-box with the lower glass disc engraved with a micrometre scale. The instrument is housed in a cardboard box.