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mounted mirror and adjustable stand
mounted mirror and adjustable stand

mounted mirror and adjustable stand

Datemid 19th Century
Inventory Number2007-1-0454
ClassificationMirror
Subject
    Cultural Region
      Dimensionsstand: 1.9 × 5.8 × 5.8 cm (3/4 × 2 5/16 × 2 5/16 in.)
      Material
        DescriptionA rear-surface glass mirror, round, is attached to a red brass disk with knurled edges. The disk screws into a round bracket and freely rotates on it. The bracket also has knurled edges. It has two slotted holes for attaching the device to a pair of pins or bolts.

        Found with the mirror is a red brass mounting device or stand with tip-tilt screws between the base and middle plate, and x-y adjustment screws on the middle plate. The base has similar slotted holes as the mirror assembly does. The top plate is a flat disk that screws onto the mounted middle plate. The edges of the base and screws are knurled.
        Signedunsigned
        box compound microscope
        Claude Paris
        Date: 1745-1750
        Accessories: 4 objectives in wooden mounts; 2 pin wrenches; stage forceps; 4 wood slides with two specimens each.
        Object number: 1183
        Beggs deformeter gauges
        George Erle Beggs
        Date: early 20th-mid 20th Century
        Accessories: 6 deformeter gauges; 22 plugs; 2 cylindrical plastic boxes containing screws and metal strips for fastening the ends of the structure; metal stylus; 2 metal pins; 2 celluloid wedges; 1 rectangular celluloid piece with a wedge coming out of one end
        Object number: 1999-1-0064
        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
        part of a mechanical indicator by Zeiss
        Carl Zeiss, Inc.
        Object number: WJ0600
        Gregorian reflecting telescope
        English
        Date: 1715-1720
        Accessories: solar filter; lens; awl; dust caps.
        Object number: 5002
        Powell achromatic compound microscope
        Hugh Powell
        Date: 1841
        Accessories: oculars (2); objectives (3): 1/2, 1/8, 1/4 with attachable Lieberkühn; stage slide holder; stage fish plate holder; X-Y mechanical stage; fish plate; prepared slides (2); plain glass slides (2) and cover slips (2); box of cover slips; sponge; cotton bag; folding scalpel; fish plate; mount for stage forceps; fishhook; assorted hardware; case
        Object number: 1164
        repeater telegraph - signal CADER
        Western Electric Manufacturing Company
        Date: 1869-1881
        Object number: 1997-1-0300
        Watson Swinging Substage Wenham-type binocular compound microscope
        W. Watson & Sons Ltd.
        Date: circa 1885
        Accessories: oculars (2 pairs): B and D; objectives in marked canisters (4): 1/4, 1/2, 1, 3 inches; condenser with iris diaphragm; rotating wheel diaphragm; iris diaphragm; set of 4 disk diaphragms in brass box; triple nosepiece; live box; prisms for Wenham binocular system (2); stage for simple microscope with rotating wheel diaphragm; vulcanite stage; spare knobs (2); parts box; case
        Object number: 1249
        microphone
        Universal Microphone Company
        Date: ca.1920-1940
        Object number: WJ0602
        Pritchard achromatic compound microscope
        Andrew Pritchard
        Date: 1835-1840
        Accessories: objectives (4); oculars (6); lieberkühns (4); stage forceps; bull's eye condenser on stand; spring stage; extra mechanical stage; polarizer; cup diaphragms and holders; substage fork mount; live box; glass troughs (2); concave glass; fish tube holder; case; 2 keys. See also slide micrometers (2) (1088b,c)
        Object number: 1088a
        inertia device ?
        American
        Date: 1890-1930
        Object number: 1996-1-0327
        pipette maker
        American
        Date: circa 1950
        Object number: 2010-1-0021