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Description: | Substantial Cooke, Troughton & Simms microscope in black and chrome with angled side-viewing eyepiece and straight-through eyepiece for projection onto screen and bellows arrangement held on black and chrome stand. Microscope has lower light-gathering mirror, condenser lenses and a single objective in a turret of 4. Objective, "para 25 mm NA 0.2 X6"; angled eyepiece "Olympus 5X", projection eyepiece "WW X9 Huyg". On body of eyepiece "1 div = 2 microns", makers mark CTS, Pat. No. 525970 (model no.??) M30118. Nicely made with good sturdy feel to it. Patent 525970 dated 09/09/1940 for 'improvements in or relating to microscopes' concerns mechanical design features. | License: | http://www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/Copyright_terms_conditions.shtml | Publisher: | ABDNP University of Aberdeen, Natural Philosophy Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments | Rights holder: | 47718 | Temporal: | 1940-1960 | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Creator: | Cooke Troughton & Simms | Identifier: | http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.e... | Go to resource |
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