Object Details
- Description
- Incomplete example of the “Small microtome with mechanical knife motion, arranged as a freezing and paraffine embedding microtome” that Rudolph Jung (1845-1900), a precision engineer in Heidelberg termed “An extra-ordinarily cheap instrument which commends itself for many purposes.” An inscription reads “R. Jung / Heidelberg / No. 3999.”
- Ref: Chicago. World’s Columbian Exhibition, Special Catalogue of the Collective Exhibition of Scientific Instruments and Appliances Exhibited by the Deutsche Gesellshaft fur Mechanik und Optik (Berlin, 1893), pp. 24-34, on 26.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Jung, Rudolph
- date made
- after 1885
- Credit Line
- The Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital
- Measurements
- overall: 8 in x 5 19/32 in x 2 1/2 in; 20.32 cm x 14.224 cm x 6.35 cm
- Object Name
- microtome
