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- OBJECT TYPE
- compound binocular/Wenham
- DATE
- Unknown
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1972.0427.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Hunter & Sands
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- London, England
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 14
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- BRASS/ WOOD/ GLASS
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 46.9 cm
- Width
- 24.1 cm
- Height
- 19.1 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Physics
- Category
- Light & electromagnetic radiation
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Hunter Sands
- Country
- England
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- London
Context
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- Unknown
- Canada
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Unknown - Function
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Unknown - Technical
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Unknown - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- 'HUNTER & SANDS 20 CRANBOUR ST. LONDON' ON MICRSCOPE STAND IN WHITE
- Missing
- N/A
- Finish
- .1 LACQUERED BRASS, CONVERGING TUBE BINOCULAR SCOPE ON AN OXIDISED STAND; COARSE FOCUSING BY RACK & PINION, FINE FOCUSING BY SCREW ADJUSTABLE STAYE WITH A PLANO-CONCAVE MIRROR; RESTS ON WOOD PLINTH/.2 BRASS OVAL SHAPED PLATE; ONE END HAS GLASS VIEWER WITH 9 DRILLED HOLES ON OUTER EDGE; OTHER OPPOSITE END HAS A PROTRUDING PIN/.3-.6 ALL BRASS EYEPIECES WITH LENSON EACH END,.5 DIFFERENT LENGTH/ .7-.9 ALL BRASS CYLINDRICAL CANNISTERS CONTAINING A SMALLER EYEPIECE SCREWED TO INSIDE OF CAPS, SAME EXCEPT FOR LENGTHS; .10 BRASS EYE PIECE; .11 SAME AS .10 EXCEPT MISSING 1 LENS; .12 BRASS TWEEZERS OR FORCEPS; .13 BRASS HANDLE METAL STAGE FORCEPS; .14 LENS MOUNTED ON BRASS PLATE; ALL PARTS FIT INTO DOVETAIL JOINTED MAHOGANY BOX; FRONT SIDE- DOOR; TOP HAS BRASS HANDLE; A DRAWER IN THE BOX CONTAINS GLASS SLIDES & DISKS
- Decoration
- N/A
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Hunter & Sands, Microscope, Unknown Date, Artifact no. 1972.0427, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collections.ingeniumcanada.org/en/item/1972.0427.001/
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