microscope parts
Date1930-1950
Inventory Number2004-1-0280
ClassificationMicroscope
Subject
Maker
Spencer Lens Company
1895 - 1945
Maker
Bausch & Lomb Optical Company
1853-present
User
Edwin H. Land
1909 - 1991
Cultural Region
Place of Origin
Place of Use
Dimensionsbox: 8 x 19 x 15 cm (3 1/8 x 7 1/2 x 5 7/8 in.)
Material
DescriptionThe box contains various bits of microscope parts: three slides, two microscope barrels, one adjustable mirror, dust cap, two lenses, metallic rings and others unidentified parts. The microscopes that went with these are not in the collection.
In Collection(s)
Signedon thin barrel: BAUSCH & LOMB OPTICAL CO.
on large barrel: SPENCER
ProvenanceThis object belonged to Edwin H. Land and came from the Rowland Institute, Harvard University. Gift of the Edwin H. Land Family.
Spencer Lens Company
Date: after 1900
Accessories: Spencer oculars (4)
Object number: 1997-1-0007a-e
Spencer Lens Company
Date: circa 1940
Accessories: oculars (3): 6x, 10x, and pinhole; objectives (4): B&L 45x, AO 40x, Spencer 10x, B&L 16 mm; quick-change objective holders (2); quick-change centerable objective holders (3); petrographic substage condenser and polarizer; Amici-Bertrand lens; Polaroid analyzer; quartz wedge; full-wave plate; blue filters; case, key
Object number: 1378a
Spencer Lens Company
Date: circa 1920
Accessories: oculars (2): 10x, "planoscopic"; triple nosepiece; Spencer objectives (3):16mm, 4mm, 1.8mm; Abbe condenser
Object number: 1313
Spencer Lens Company
Date: circa 1930
Accessories: metal case; spare projection mirror; GE operational bulbs (2); one blown bulb; objective(2); lenses (2); wooden slide holders (2); extendable neck
Object number: 2007-1-0066
Spencer Lens Company
Date: circa 1937
Accessories: objectives in quick-release mounts (3): Spencer 6x and 20x, B&L 45x; full wave plate; quartz wedge; rotary vernier stage; Abbe condenser; Ahrens prism polarizer; case
Object number: 1320
Spencer Lens Company
Date: circa 1940
Object number: 1996-1-0025
Spencer Lens Company
Date: 1940-1945
Accessories: oculars (1 pair): 10x; objectives (2 pairs): 1X and 2.3X ; case
Object number: 2004-1-0335
Spencer Lens Company
Date: circa 1935
Accessories: Spencer Microscope Lamps M-65 Feb.1935 (in instrument file folder)
Object number: 2009-1-0068
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
Spencer Lens Company
Date: circa 1875
Accessories: objectives (6): Tolles 8/10 " dated 5/1/1863, 2 marked Spencer on can, 1 European shape "5", 2 other; oculars (2); polarizer set; box of general subjects slides; substage mirror; magnifier; case
Object number: 1159
Spencer Lens Company
Date: circa 1940
Accessories: transformer (2009-1-0081)
Object number: 2009-1-0072
John Cuthbertson
Date: 1770-1815
Accessories: brown storage box, descriptive tag, thin strip of paper in box with the inscription "lucernal microscope" in David P. Wheatland's handwriting (which refers to figs. 47-48 and 51 in this series), page from the book "Old Science and Medicine" with a photographic copy of the first print from this series, entitled "The Large Electric Machine at Haarlem."
Object number: 1998-1-1087