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condensing lens in cell
condensing lens in cell

condensing lens in cell

Date1875-1900
Inventory Number2007-1-0341
ClassificationLens
Subject
    Cultural Region
      Dimensions2.5 × 5.4 × 5.4 cm (1 × 2 1/8 × 2 1/8 in.)
      Material
        DescriptionA large condensing lens formed of an lens pair is held like an objective in a blackened collar with exterior threads. Knurled edges.
        Signedunsigned
        condensing lens in brass cell
        French
        Date: 1875-1900
        Object number: 2007-1-0340
        Culpeper-type screwbarrel microscope with compound body
        Edmund Culpeper
        Date: circa 1730
        Accessories: 6 objectives for screw-barrel microscope; 3 objectives for compound body; 1 lieberkuhn; 1 opaque attachment; brass box; 2 ivory slides, 1 brass wet-cell slide; tweezer; ivory handle; glass specimen fish tube; storage box; instruction booklet by Culpeper (stored in instrument file).
        Object number: 1173
        lens in cell
        J. Duboscq-Soleil
        Date: 1850-1875
        Object number: 2007-1-0518
        cell for rear doublet lens of 10-inch Boyden photographic telescope
        Alvan Clark and Sons
        Date: 1889
        Accessories: box
        Object number: 1997-1-0036
        mounted condensing lens
        American
        Date: 1900-1925
        Object number: 2007-1-0451
        6-inch condensing lens
        American
        Date: circa 1945
        Object number: 1996-1-0481g
        6-inch condensing lens
        American
        Date: circa 1945
        Object number: 1996-1-0481h
        6-inch condensing lens
        American
        Date: circa 1945
        Object number: 1996-1-0481i
        assorted lenses and windows mounted in cells
        Carl Zeiss Jena
        Date: early 20th Century
        Object number: 1998-1-0408
        condensing lens
        American
        Date: 1850-1900
        Object number: 1997-1-0087
        4.5-inch condensing lens
        American
        Date: circa 1900
        Object number: 1996-1-0481f
        condensing lens for Kodaslide Projector, Master Model
        Eastman Kodak Company
        Date: 1947-1956
        Object number: 2007-1-0452