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Microscope

Microscope

The Smithsonian catalogs Microscope as microscope in its Science & Scientific Instruments records.

WHY IT’S INTERESTING

In the mid-1870s, The Industrial Publication Co. of New York offered a “Handy Compound Pocket Microscope” that cost $7.50 and was “capable of giving a clear and well defined view of the general form of such objects as urinary deposits, diatoms, desmids, etc.” This example seems to be of that sort. It is a tiny monocular with push-pull focus, rectangular stage, sub-stage mirror, inclination joint,

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The Smithsonian lists the object under Science & Scientific Instruments and dates it ca 1874.

In the mid-1870s, The Industrial Publication Co. of New York offered a “Handy Compound Pocket Microscope” that cost $7.50 and was “capable of giving a clear and well defined view of the general form of such objects as urinary deposits, diatoms, desmids, etc.” This example seems to be of that sort. It is a tiny monocular with push-pull focus, rectangular stage, sub-stage mirror, inclination joint,

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