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Nachet small compound microscope
Nachet small compound microscope

Nachet small compound microscope

Date1880-1890
Inventory Number1107a
ClassificationMicroscope
Subject
    Maker A. Nachet 1880 - 1890
    Maker Jean Alfred Nachet 1831 - 1908
    Maker John W. Drew fl. 1880 - 1890
    Cultural Region
      Place of Origin
        Dimensionsmicroscope: 27.3 × 7.9 × 11.4 cm (10 3/4 × 3 1/8 × 4 1/2 in.)
        case: 11 × 29.8 × 17 cm (4 5/16 × 11 3/4 × 6 11/16 in.)
        Material
          Accessories3 Objectives: #7 Nachet with adjustment collar and Society thread in cannister (1107c), small box with # 3 and 6 (11.5 mm threads) and adapter to Society threads (1107b); 2 oculars: no # and 2; bull's eye condenser; pill box with with cover glasses; flat case (1107d) with key.
          Description1107 is an example of the small-sized compound microscope that Nachet et Fils advertised in 1872 as the "petite modèle inclinant." For ease of identifying and comparing the components and accessories of this microscope to those of others, it is divided into these separate records:

          1107a: the microscope with eyepieces
          1107b: box of objectives
          1107c: canister with objective, 7
          1107d: case
          1107e: papers

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          The microscope resembles the Nachet medium microscope with the same horseshoe-shaped base with a cupped heel. The base is brass and weighted with lead. The stand consists of a round pillar topped with an inclining joint. This joint is attached to the stage, and the stage carries the upper part of the microscope.

          The tube is carried in a sleeve that screws into a ring mount attached to the main pillar of the microscope. This pillar is fixed to the back of the stage. The tube has telescoping sections. The nosepiece is integral to the tube. Coarse focus is by sliding the tube. Fine focus is by a micrometer screw in the top of the pillar.

          The square stage has a blackened brass top. There are two, spring-loaded stage clips.

          There is a substage wheel diaphragm. The substage mirror is plano-concave and has knurled screws for adjusting its angle. The mirror is fork-mounted on an articulated arm below the stage.

          The microscope has 2 oculars (2 and no number). There is a set of 2 objectives and an adaptor for the tube, which has Society threads. These are stored in a small box (1107b). Another objective with a correction collar is in a brass cannister (1107c).

          The microscope also has a bull's eye condenser that attaches to the ring mount on the stand, and is for illuminating opaque objects. Another accessory is a pill box with glass cover slips.

          The flat mahogany case (1107d) has its key.

          Signedengraved on heel: NACHET / 17, rue St. Séverin, Paris printed on pill box: JOHN W. DREW / DRUGGIST / Cor. Penn Ave. and Ninth Street / WASHINGTON, D.C.
          Inscribedin pencil on pill box: Covers
          ProvenanceHarvard Medical School.
          Nachet medium new-model compound microscope
          Nachet et Fils (I)
          Date: 1872-1880
          Accessories: Objective #1 with 11.5 mm threads; adapter to Society threads; ocular #3; condensor with iris; dual substage mirror on jointed arm; no case.
          Object number: 1306
          Nachet medium new-model compound microscope
          Nachet et Fils (I)
          Date: circa 1872
          Accessories: Box covered by blue paper (1990-2-0012c), marked "mementoes"and containing 4 slides; adapter from Society thread to dual nosepiece (19901-2-0012b) with 11.4 mm threads; 2 objectives : #2 and #7 immersion. No case.
          Object number: 1990-2-0012a
          horizontal universal achromatic compound microscope
          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
          Nachet-type drum compound microscope
          Camille Sébastien Nachet
          Date: 1855-1865
          Accessories: oculars (3); objectives (2 large with 13 mm thread): 4, 8 with screw canisters for the same; objectives (3 with ~6.4 mm threads); nosepieces (3); parts box; flat mahogany case; no key.
          Object number: 1108
          Nachet medium compound microscope
          Nachet et Fils (I)
          Date: 1862-1880
          Accessories: 5 objectives (11.5 mm) in leather-covered box (1025b): 1, 3, 5, 5, 7 immersion; 4 oculars: 1, 2, 3, no #; bull's eye on articulated stand (1025d); mahogany parts box (1025c with dissecting instruments: 6 needles, 2 scalpels, scissors, tweezers, 4 slides, box of cover glasses, 2 cup diaphragms, 1 diffuser ; flat case with fine lock, no key.
          Object number: 1025a
          Nachet photomicrographic compound microscope
          A. Nachet
          Date: 1880-1890
          Accessories: 1 Objective # 2 with society thread; 1 projection eyepiece; mechanical stage; split aperture epi illuminator; no case, but came with a cover (separately cataloged as 1279b).
          Object number: 1279a
          Nachet medium petrographic compound microscope
          A. Nachet
          Date: 1880-1890
          Accessories: Ocular with crosshair; cap for ocular with analyzer; ocular cap; objective #3 with 11.5 x 045 mm threads; substage polarizer; no case.
          Object number: 1206
          Leitz stand III laboratory compound microscope
          Ernst Leitz (company)
          Date: 1888
          Accessories: eyepiece no.1; objectives: 3, 7 with 12.7 mm threads in fitted box (1990-2-0004b); flat case
          Object number: 1990-2-0004a
          Nachet large compound microscope
          Nachet et Fils (I)
          Date: 1862
          Accessories: 6 objectives in box (1157b) with 1 substage condenser; oblique prism condenser; 3 oculars; 1 cup diaphragm, 1 diffuser, ; camera lucida; stage and eyepiece micrometers; liquid trough; 3 dissecting knives; prepared slides in box (1157d); plain slides; cover glasses; bull's eye on jointed arm(1157e); Amici's illuminator prism with stand (1157f); compressorium (1157g); case with parts box (1157c).
          Object number: 1157a
          Nachet large compound microscope
          Camille Sébastien Nachet
          Date: 1856-1862
          Accessories: oculars (2): 2 , 3; objectives (6) in fitted box (1029b): 0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, along with substage condenser and oblique Nachet prism condenser; cup diaphram; flat case with parts box (1029c) holding diffuser, camera lucida; stage micrometer; ocular micrometer; wet specimen trough, 4 slides in red leather box (1029d); bull's eye condenser.
          Object number: 1029a
          Leitz stand III laboratory compound microscope
          Ernst Leitz (company)
          Date: 1888
          Accessories: objectives (2): 3, 7 with non-RMS (~12.7 mm) threads in fitted box [1175b]; oculars (2): 1, 3; cup diaphragms (2); glass slides (6); case
          Object number: 1175a
          Nachet small compound microscope and accessories
          Nachet et Fils (I)
          Date: 1862
          Accessories: 3 Oculars: 1, 2, 3; 3 Objectives in fitted box:1, 2, 3; one on tube: also #5, but longer; Camera lucida "Nachet"; 9 Glass slides; Cover glasses; bull's eye on jointed arm; wheel with 2 stops under stage; small blue filter; flat case with key.
          Object number: 1069