Tolles student-type compound microscope
Datecirca 1870
Inventory Number1286
ClassificationMicroscope
Subject
Maker
Boston Optical Works
fl. 1867 - 1895
Maker
Robert B. Tolles
1823 - 1883
Cultural Region
Place of Origin
Dimensionsmicroscope: 33.8 × 15.3 × 17.7 cm (13 5/16 × 6 × 6 15/16 in.)
case: 41 × 18.8 × 20.8 cm (16 1/8 × 7 3/8 × 8 3/16 in.)
case: 41 × 18.8 × 20.8 cm (16 1/8 × 7 3/8 × 8 3/16 in.)
Material
Accessories1 Tolles objective with cap : 1/4" 40 deg. , dated 5/12/1868; 2 oculars 24.5 mm dia. ; simple stage with clips; diaphragm wheel; no condensor; substage mirror; objective cap; standing walnut case.
DescriptionThis is a standard Tolles "Student's Microscope" as illustrated in the catalogues of Boston Optical Works / Charles Stodder from 1871 onwards. (See Tolles-Dalton Papers, 1045d). Coarse focus is by sliding tube. Fine focus is by a mechanism in the tube end.
In Collection(s)
Signedmarked on tube: BOSTON OPTICAL WORKS / TOLLES
Inscribedon hinge nuts and underside of stage: 41
Historical AttributesUsed by students at Derby Academy, Hingham, MA until 1968.
Robert B. Tolles
Date: circa 1880
Accessories: Tolles ocular, 24.5 mm dia.; Tolles 1/4" objective; no condensor; diaphragm wheel; concave/flat substage mirror; standing walnut case.
Object number: 1294
Boston Optical Works
Date: circa 1880
Accessories: 1 ocular; 1 objective 16mm 0.25 10x B&L
Object number: 1338
Boston Optical Works
Date: circa 1870
Accessories: 3 Tolles oculars 24.5 mm dia. : high power solid, med and low Huyghens; 2 Tolles objectives: 1/6 immersion dated 11/3/1878 and 1"(by can), no date, no collar; polarizer, no analyzer; substage double mirror; diaphragm wheel; no condenser; case.
Object number: 1130
Robert B. Tolles
Date: after 1877
Accessories: 3 Tolles objectives: 1/4 with collar, no date; 1/2 "TOLLES, BOSTON, dated 1877, cap instead of can; 2" (unusual) in can; 2 anonymous 24.5mm dia. oculars; single substage mirror; stage clips; double mirror on stand; standing case with key.
Object number: 1131
Robert B. Tolles
Date: 1860-1874
Object number: 1045a-v
Boston Optical Works
Date: 1860-1890
Accessories: Three dated Tolles objectives: 1/2" Nov. 18, 1860, 1/4" Dec. 23, 1877, 1/5" Oct. 28, 1868; 1 high power solid eyepiece, 1 low power normal eyepiece; polarizer; substage mirror; mechanical stage, standing case.
Object number: 1066
Robert B. Tolles
Date: circa 1874
Accessories: 3 Objectives: Tolles (?) with front element missing, no date; Leitz 1/12 oel imm., tubus 160 mm; Tolles 1/6" 35 deg., no date; 4 Tolles oculars 24.5 mm dia.; condensor w. iris; diaphragm wheel; substage mirror w. opt. stand; Nichol's micr.; case. camera luc Abbe condensor; diaphragm wheel; separate stand f. substage mirror; standing case.
Object number: 1305
Robert B. Tolles
Date: circa 1875
Accessories: 2 Tolles objectives: 1/8" dated 6/27/1866; 1/8" 120 deg. dated 3/7/1869, can marked: Immersion, also scratched: C. X. D. 1902; empty can for Tolles 1/4", now on inverted Tolles Nr. 1203; 2 oculars, no name, not solid, 24.5 mm dia.; Standing case.
Object number: 1127
Robert B. Tolles
Date: 1860-1874
Object number: 1045d
Boston Optical Works
Date: circa 1875
Accessories: 1 Ocular; extension tube : "Tolles' Amplifier"; 1 nondescript objective whithout shell; diaphragm wheel but no condensor; concave substage mirror; x-y sliding stage; stage clips.
Object number: 1129
Ernst Abbe
Date: circa 1886
Accessories: oculars (5): 0, 1,2, 3, 4; objectives (7): AA, A, C, D, E, F, 1/12 Homog. Immers. Apert. 1.20; Abbe condenser; disc diaphragms (6); cup diaphragms (3) with frame; articulated substage mirror; cyllindrical wooden box; key; case. See also Leitz camera lucida in small box (1123b) and stage screw micrometer (1123c).
Object number: 1123a