Object Details
- Description
- Compound monocular microscope with three S-shaped legs of the sort designed in the 1720s by the English optician, Edmund Culpeper. The body is brass. The base is wood, as is the triangular case. A drawer in the base holds extra parts.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- Physical Description
- brass (microscope material)
- wood (case material)
- glass (microscope material)
- wood (microscope material)
- Measurements
- microscope with base: 39 cm x 16.5 cm x 16.5 cm; 15 3/8 in x 6 1/2 in x 6 1/2 in
- case: 43.4 cm x 21 cm x 20 cm; 17 1/16 in x 8 1/4 in x 7 7/8 in
- Object Name
- microscope
