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Description: | 1234 (number of each lapping facet branded into each quadrant of the handle). MANU Aesculap AG. circa 1900 Tuttlingen, Germany. This is an anatomical razor strop n the form of square rod with four different grades of hardness of rubber with different grades of abrasive added to each. The four sides of the rod each have a sheet of each kind of rubber glued to its surface. The abrasive properties of each sheet are graded 1-4 with 4 proiding the final lap. The strop was used for sharpening the blades of razors and knives used in microtomes.
Thin sections for the microscopical investigation of tissues were first mentioned by the inventor of the compoud microscope Robert Hooke in his Micrographia, published in London in 1665, in which he describes using a sharp knife to prepare specimens of cork. In 1770 John Hill published a description of his microtome for cutting sections of wood, copies of which were manufactured by Jesse Ramsden. In 1839, the French instrument maker Charles Chevalier (1804-1859) first introduced the term "microtome" to science. | 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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