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'No. 1' Compound Microscope with Case, Accessory Box and Accessories, by Powell & Lealand, London, 1876

Inventory Number 69596


Subject
Microscopy
Item type
Object
Provenance
Lent by the Royal Microscopical Society. Presented by Albert Davidson Michael, 20 October 1926
Primary inscriptions
"POWELL & LEALAND. 170 Euston Road, LONDON. 1876" on arm.
Inventory No
69596
Accession Number
1970-101/part

Description

No. 1' Compound microscope with case and accessory box, eyepieces, shading eyecaps, six copper alloy objective cans, a disc of four apertures, an achromatic condenser with disc of eleven apertures, chromatic condenser, two parabolic illuminators, a condenser with a central stop, a dark-well holder and three dark wells and a Nicol prism polarizer and accompanying nosepiece analyser, a stage bull's-eye on a rod, a stage silvered side illuminator on a rod, two parabolic side reflectors to clip over objectives, in oval copper alloy cans, a steel tommy-bar to adjust compass joints, a ground glass disc in copper alloy rim to fit a collar, two copper alloy collars, two caps with small apertures, and a small round mirror on a short tube, a pill-box with three dismounted central stops.