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Compound Microscope in Case with Accessories, by Carl Zeiss, Jena, c.1910

Inventory Number 20525

Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.20525

Subject
Microscopy
Item type
Object
Provenance
Presented by the School of Biological Sciences, Manchester University, in 1996. RMS-MHS Collection of Twentieth-Century Microscopes.
Primary inscriptions
Carl Zeiss, Jena Nr. 51469, stage Nr. 5688
Other inscriptions
M. 22. on the foot
Object type
Microscope
Inventory No
20525
Accession Number
1996-3

Description

Compound Microscope in Case with Accessories. The instrument stands on a horseshoe foot with the limb carried on trunnions. A rack and pinion within the limb moves the body tube for focusing. One of four eyepieces

drop into the top of the body and three objectives are held in a changer on the lower end. The

circular, rotating stage

is mounted on the limb at the level of the trunnions. The stage plate is mechanical

and two scales show the degree of movement in each direction. Including a sub stage condenser and a plane mirror on mount. The instrument and accessories are stored in a fitted wooden case.

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