Object Details
- Description
- Compound monocular with coarse and fine focus, double nosepiece, square stage, inclination joint with handle, sub-stage diaphragm, sub-stage mirror, and horseshoe base. The inscription reads “E. Leitz Wetzlar / No 24997.” The serial number indicates a date of around 1892. The back of the base is marked “48?”
- According to the donor, this microscope was used at the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.
- Ref: Ernst Leitz, Petrological and Metallographic Microscopes (Wetzlar, 1910), pp. 14-17.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Ernst Leitz
- date made
- ca 1892
- Credit Line
- Ronald S. Wilkinson
- Measurements
- overall: 31.7 cm x 10.3 cm x 13.2 cm; 12 15/32 in x 4 1/16 in x 5 3/16 in
- Object Name
- Microscope
