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United States: New York, Rochester / late 1880s

Microscope

Microscope

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

WHY IT’S INTERESTING

George Wale, an English immigrant then living in New Jersey, showed his “New Working Microscope” at the American Institute Exhibition of 1879 and took home a Medal of Excellence, the judges reporting that “it is one of the most perfect, if not the most perfect moderate sized instrument produced, for the low price at which it sells, by any optician to this day.” Its key feature was a method of hang

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The Smithsonian lists the object under Science & Scientific Instruments and dates it late 1880s.

George Wale, an English immigrant then living in New Jersey, showed his “New Working Microscope” at the American Institute Exhibition of 1879 and took home a Medal of Excellence, the judges reporting that “it is one of the most perfect, if not the most perfect moderate sized instrument produced, for the low price at which it sells, by any optician to this day.” Its key feature was a method of hang

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