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Microscope

Microscope

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

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Richard Halsted Ward (1837-1917), a medical microscopist and professor at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, showed an example of “Blankley’s neat and convenient tank microscope, made by Swift of London” at the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, held at Troy, N.Y., in August 1870. Frederick Blankley, an active member of the Royal Microscopical Society in London,

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The Smithsonian lists the object under Science & Scientific Instruments and dates it ca 1870.

Richard Halsted Ward (1837-1917), a medical microscopist and professor at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, showed an example of “Blankley’s neat and convenient tank microscope, made by Swift of London” at the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, held at Troy, N.Y., in August 1870. Frederick Blankley, an active member of the Royal Microscopical Society in London,

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