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Description: | SWIFT & SON UNIVERSITY ST LONDON W.C. (engraved on the base) TRADE MARK (with swift logo engraved on the rear extension to the trunnion). 1/4 in SWIFT & SON. (engraved on the objective). MANU James Swift & Son. circa 1877 University Works, 43 University Street, Tottenham Court Road,London W.C. England. This "Students" microscope has a black japanned brass English base with two pillars supporting a combined trunnion and stage plate. The stage plate has a black glass cover. One of the stage clips is missing but interestingly there is a disc of five diaphragms built into the stage between the brass plate and the glass plate. The disc which has a knurled rim protudes from the edge of the plate. There is a substage draw tube for a condenser which is missing. The double mirror is on a gimbal and pivot attached to a slide which is on a tubular tailpiece which screws into the trunnion. The limb is a modified hexagonal and has fine adjust ment screw on top. The angular arm supports the sliding body tube which consists of two draw tubes. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | SCIENTIFIC COLLECTION : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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