Eyepiece
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- OBJECT TYPE
- tube
- DATE
- 1857–1860
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 2002.1028.005
- MANUFACTURER
- Potter, A.
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 5
- Total Parts
- 5
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- It is made of brass with a glass lens.
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 4.0 cm
- Width
- 3.5 cm
- Height
- 5.0 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Medical Technology
- Category
- Medical equipment
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Potter
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- City
- Toronto
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- 1857-1860
- Canada
-
Part of a large collection of medical artifacts, archival material & trade literature transferred to CSTM in 2002 from the former History of Medicine Museum, Toronto, ON. - Function
-
To aid in observing specimens in minute detail; - Technical
-
The ocular lens, also known as the eyepiece lens, is the part of a compound microscope that a user looks into to see a magnified image. It is a see-through double convex lens curved to cause images to appear larger; the eyepiece screws on to the eyepiece tube which then sits inside the draw tube that that adjusts up or down for closer or farther viewing. - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- None.
- Missing
- Mirror objectives
- Finish
- It is made of brass with a glass lens.
- Decoration
- None.
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Potter, A., Eyepiece, between 1857–1860, Artifact no. 2002.1028, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collections.ingeniumcanada.org/en/item/2002.1028.005/
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