drum compound microscope
Date1840-1850
Inventory Number1174
ClassificationMicroscope
Subject
Maker
French
Owner
Charles Cotton
1788 - 1870
Cultural Region
Place of Use
Dimensionsmicroscope: 21.3 × 6.7 × 11.5 cm (8 3/8 × 2 5/8 × 4 1/2 in.)
case: 7.9 × 23.4 × 10.1 cm (3 1/8 × 9 3/16 × 4 in.)
case: 7.9 × 23.4 × 10.1 cm (3 1/8 × 9 3/16 × 4 in.)
Material
Accessoriesocular; 3 part objective; tweezers; glass slide with well; glass cover slip; bull's eye condenser; wooden box
DescriptionMedium drum compound microscope in the French pattern. Rack and pinion focus of the body tube. Also ocular draw tube. Bull's eye lens on double ball joint attached to front of body tube. Small rectangular stage of darkened brass.. Concave substage mirror. Round base filled with lead. There is one eyepiece and a convertible objective.
With fitted wood case. One glass slide with magnifying well. Broken circular glass cover slip. Brass tweezers.
With fitted wood case. One glass slide with magnifying well. Broken circular glass cover slip. Brass tweezers.
Signedunsigned
ProvenanceDr. Charles Cotton, former surgeon of the Frigate USS Constitution, Newport, RI; owned by Cotton family but on loan to Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, MA before 1960; gift to CHSI by Mrs. William Cotton (granddaughter-in-law of Charles Cotton), Mill House, Stockton, NJ, March 1960.
Historical AttributesThis microscope belonged to Dr. Charles Cotton (1788-1870), a naval surgeon who served on the Frigate USS Constitution. Dr. Cotton attended Harvard College (AB 1808). He received his AM from Brown in 1813 and his MD in 1813, being Brown's first MD. After resigning from the Navy, he worked as a surgeon in Newport, RI.
English
Date: circa 1795
Accessories: 1 ocular; 6 objectives: 1 to 6; stage condenser; stage forceps; live box; live well (watch glass); black/white stage plate; fish tube; 6 prepared wooden slides; tweezers; dissecting needle; a quill; bull's eye lens on stand; round brass box; 3 narrow glass slides; 3 glass slides; flat mahogany case.
Object number: 1303
E. Hartnack & A. Prazmowski
Date: circa 1870
Accessories: objectives (7): 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 9,10 in fitted box ; eyepieces (4): 1, 4, 5, 6; cup diaphragms (4); polarizer set; bull's eye condenser on stand; Oberhaeuser-style camera lucida; tweezers; substage rotating wheel diaphragm attached to holder with blue glass filter; substage glass filter holder with blue glass filter; substage condenser; dual nosepiece, Hartnack 1/100 mm stage micrometer; flat case; key; magnification table; price lists (2).
Object number: 1080
Harmanus van Deyl
Date: 1807
Accessories: 2 objectives; 2 eye lenses for a fixed field lens; 1 Lieberkühn; frogplate; bull's eye; stage forceps; spring stage; live box; hand lens; 2 tweezers; 2 boxes with 59 specimen slides; glass disk; black disk; "fish" tube with wire; ivory box of mica cover slips; 5 glass slides; 3 lenses; 2 keys.
Object number: 2002-1-0075a
Edward Marmaduke Clarke
Date: 1838-1840
Accessories: 5 objectives for simple microscope; 2 objectives for compound microscope (1 in can; 1 with lieberkuhn); cup diaphragm with lieberkuhn in brass box; brass box of cover slips; stage forceps; tweezers; 2 live boxes; frog plate; bull's eye; fish tube wire; wrench; chamois; 2 unmounted lenses; 40 prepared slides; standing case; 2 keys.
Object number: 1018
Smith & Beck
Date: circa 1850
Accessories: Achromatic condensor; a darkfield condenser (Wenham's parabolic reflector); a substage set of aperture stops on a swingaway vane inside a sleeve; a nickel tweezers; a stage forceps; and a bull's eye condenser with a stand, a glass tray for the stage, Varley live box; case.
Object number: 1059
Charles-Louis Chevalier
Date: circa 1840
Accessories: 2 regular objectives; a high power objective; a low power objective (a variable power dissecting lens) with an extension arm for this lens; 2 dissecting lenses; 1 objective with lieberkuhn; objective with polarizer; 2 regular eyepieces; 1 erecting eyepiece; 1 micrometer eyepiece; stage micrometer, stage bull's eye condenser on jointed arm; camera lucida; tweezers; 3 dissecting tools; pillar extension;
compressorium, 2 objective adaptive mounts (one with Chevalier threads, another with Oberhauser threads); 2 adaptors for Chevalier lenses to other microscopes (one adaptor having Society threads); case.
Object number: 1093
Georges Oberhaeuser
Date: circa 1845
Accessories: objectives (3): 7 and 4 on nosepieces, unnumbered one detached; oculars (2); bull's eye condenser; live box; glass slides (4); case; key.
Object number: 1384
Charles-Louis Chevalier
Date: circa 1840
Accessories: 2 convertible objectives: 1, 2, 3 and 0,00,000; 2 oculars; simple magnifiers: 3 and 5, with support bracket; extension pillar; bull's eye stage condenser on jointed arm; forceps; 3 prepared slides; box of cover glasses; 1/100 mm stage micrometer; camera lucida; tall bell jar; padlock on chain; case with key; table of magnifications
Object number: 1079
E. Hartnack & A. Prazmowski
Date: circa 1870
Accessories: objectives (2): 4 and 7; ocular: 3; tweezers; brush; 2 dissecting needles; scalpel; glass rod dropper; flat case with key; table of magnifications.
Object number: 1160
Charles-Louis Chevalier
Date: circa 1835
Accessories: 2 oculars; 1 convertible objective: "1, 2, 3"; 3 simple objectives marked 1, 3, 6 ; 1 small brass tweezers; stage bull's eye condenser; diaphragm wheel; needle with ebony handle; 3 prepared slides & 7 plain glass slides (18 x 65 mm); brass stage micrometer; small mahogany block with mounting ring; case.
Object number: 1006
Georges Oberhaeuser
Date: 1848
Accessories: objectives (2): 4 and 7; oculars (2): 2 and 3; bull's eye lens; 2 boxes of cover glasses; numbered mahogany flat case with key.
Object number: 1165
Jean-Gabriel-Auguste Chevallier
Date: circa 1830
Accessories: 2 dissecting needles; 1 scalpel; small high power lens with wire loop handle; bull's eye condenser; glass slide; 1 convertible objective; 1 ocular 23.4 mm dia.; horizontal case serving as base.
Object number: 1283