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Screwbarrel Microscope, 18th Century

Inventory Number 47337


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.47337

Subject
Microscopy
Item type
Object
Provenance
Not ascertained. R.A. Porter (? Loan)
Object type
Microscope
Dimensions
Height: 59mm Width: 205mm Depth: 135mm Weight: 605g
Inventory No
47337
Accession Number
1961-72

Description

Fitted wooden case covered in black fish skin and lined in green velvet. The case contains five objective lenses, a copper alloy handle with a threaded ring, an ivory handle with a copper alloy thread, copper alloy forceps, an ivory talc box with mica disks, stage forceps on a steel pin with a black and white disc, a scalpel with an ivory handle and a black paper case with a copper alloy wet cell and four ivory sliders.