General Information

Serial #

244250

Part Number

1

Total Parts

7

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

Predominantly black metal; brass ocular casings, circular stage, adjustment knobs and other selected fittings; clear glass lenses.

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length

19.2 cm

Width

31.2 cm

Height

31.0 cm

Thickness

N/A

Weight

N/A

Diameter

N/A

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Physics

Category

Light & electromagnetic radiation

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

Zeiss

Country

German Democratic Republic

State/Province

Unknown

City

Jena

Context

Country

Unknown

State/Province

Unknown

Period

Presumably this microscope was used c. 1920s+

Canada

Part of a large collection of medical artifacts, archival material & trade literature transferred to CSTM in 2002 from the former History of Medicine Museum, Toronto, ON.

Function

To magnify and view microscopic objects.

Technical

Unknown

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

"CARL ZEISS/ JENA" [logo] stamped into arm and binocular tube. "Nr.244250" stamped into heel of stand. "Intervall=0.002mm" stamped into base of fine adjustment knob on proper left of arm; scale over adjustment knob stamped 0 to 49, divided in single increments and labelled at intervals of 5. Adjustment scale [for adjusting arc of eyepiece tubes] labelled -60 to +70, and divided at intervals of 2, stamped into proper right base of ocular eyepiece tube. UHN catalogue no. "980.23.12 a" printed by hand in white ink, on back of stand.

Missing

Unknown.

Finish

Predominantly black metal; brass ocular casings, circular stage, adjustment knobs and other selected fittings; clear glass lenses.

Decoration

N/A