Microscope Museum

Collection of antique microscopes and other scientific instruments

 

      

                            

Index of images of microscopes and other items in historical books

 

William CARPENTER (1856, 1857, 1868, 1875, 1883, 1891, 1901)

The microscope and its revelations

 

Listed below are most microscopes, mechanical stages and lamps, and other items pictured in these historical books, including the information about the year each image appeared and a brief description.

 

Image

Book and publication year

Observations from the book

Maker

A picture containing text, indoor

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1868; 1875; 1883)

Bockett lamp

 

A picture containing text

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1868; 1875; 1883)

Baker’s travelling microscope

Baker

A picture containing text, wooden, wood

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1883; 1891)

Laboratory dissecting microscope

Baker

A drawing of a machine

Description automatically generated with low confidence

W Carpenter (1883)

Baker’s student’s erecting binocular

Baker

A picture containing text, indoor

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1883)

Baker’s student’s microscope

Baker

A picture containing text, indoor

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1891)

Baker’s microscope lamp

Baker

A picture containing weapon

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1891)

Baker’s modification of Nelson’s form

Baker

A picture containing weapon

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1891)

Baker’s Nelson’s model

Baker

A picture containing weapon

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1901)

Baker RMS microscope (1900)

Baker

A close-up of a camera

Description automatically generated with low confidence

W Carpenter (1901)

Baker’s diagnostic travelling microscope (1896)

Baker

A picture containing text, wooden

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1901)

Baker’s dissecting microscope (1876)

Baker

W Carpenter (1901)

Baker’s DPH stand No. 1 (1899)

Baker

A picture containing weapon

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1901)

Baker’s microscope

Baker

A picture containing text, weapon

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1901)

Baker’s model No. 2 (1898)

Baker

A picture containing text, indoor, metalware

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1901)

Bakers microscope lamp

Baker’

A picture containing wall, indoor

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1891)

Bausch and Lomb’s chemical microscope

Bausch and Lomb

W Carpenter (1891)

Bausch and Lomb’s professional stand

Bausch and Lomb

A picture containing metalware, old

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1891)

Bausch and Lomb’s university microscope

Bausch and Lomb

Diagram, engineering drawing

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1891)

Bausch and Lomb’s university microscope as a chemical microscope

Bausch and Lomb

W Carpenter (1891)

Bausch and Lombs chemical microscope

Bausch and Lomb

A picture containing indoor, old, gear

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1901)

Bausch and Lomb chemical microscope (1897)

Bausch and Lomb

A picture containing lighter

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1901)

Bausch and Lomb’s (Barnes) dissecting microscope (1896)

Bausch and Lomb

W Carpenter (1901)

Bausch and Lomb’s CAS microscope (1897)

Bausch and Lomb

W Carpenter (1901)

Bausch and Lomb’s grand model (1897)

Bausch and Lomb

A picture containing indoor, old, blender

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1901)

Bausch and Lomb’s lowest priced microscope (1897)

Bausch and Lomb

A picture containing indoor, old

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1901)

Bausch and Lomb’s portable microscope (1898)

Bausch and Lomb

A picture containing text, appliance

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1868; 1875; 1883; 1891)

Prof. Beale’s demonstrating microscope

Beale

A picture containing indoor, metal, old, set

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1868; 1875; 1883; 1891)

Beck’s dissecting microscope, with Nachet’s binocular magnifier

Beck

A picture containing text, wall, indoor

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1875; 1883)

Beck large microscope

Beck

W Carpenter (1875; 1883)

Beck’s popular microscope

Beck

A picture containing text, wall, indoor, old

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1875)

Beck’s student’s microscope

Beck

A close-up of a telescope

Description automatically generated with medium confidence

W Carpenter (1891)

Beck’s economic microscope

Beck

Diagram

Description automatically generated with medium confidence

W Carpenter (1891)

Beck’s histological and dissecting microscope

Beck

A picture containing wall, indoor, old, lamp

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1891)

Beck’s histological and dissecting microscope

Beck

A picture containing text, indoor

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1891)

Beck’s microscope lamp

Beck

W Carpenter (1891)

Beck’s No. 1 stand

Beck

A close-up of a telescope

Description automatically generated with medium confidence

W Carpenter (1891)

Beck’s portable microscope

Beck

A picture containing indoor, wall, old, microscope

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1891)

Beck’s third class microscope

Beck

W Carpenter (1901)

Beck’s British student’s microscope (1898)

Beck

Diagram

Description automatically generated with medium confidence

W Carpenter (1901)

Beck’s mechanical stage

Beck

A picture containing wall, indoor, old

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1901)

Beck’s third class microscope (1888)

Beck

A picture containing text, indoor

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1901)

Becks microscope lamp

Beck

A picture containing text, wall, indoor, old

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1875; 1883)

Browning’s rotating microscope

Browning

A picture containing old

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1883)

Browning’s smaller Stephenson binocular

Browning

W Carpenter (1891)

Bulloch’s new congress stand

Bulloch

A picture containing weapon

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1891)

Bulloch’s stand

Bulloch

A picture containing text, indoor

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1891; 1901)

C. Chevalier’s achromatic microscope

Chevalier

A picture containing text

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1868; 1875; 1883)

Collin’s Harley binocular

Collins

A picture containing text, weapon

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1883)

Collins’s student’s microscope

Collins

A close-up of a bottle

Description automatically generated with low confidence

W Carpenter (1891)

Collins’s aquarium microscope

Collins

A picture containing text

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1868; 1875)

Crouch’s educational microscope

Crouch

A picture containing telescope

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1868)

Crouch’s student’s binocular

Crouch

A picture containing text

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1875)

Crouch’s student’s binocular

Crouch

A picture containing text, old, weapon

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1883)

Crouch’s educational microscope

Crouch

A picture containing text, old, vintage, dirty

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1883)

Crouch’s student’s binocular

Crouch

A picture containing text

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1856; 1857; 1868)

Field’s simple microscope

Field

A picture containing text

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1856; 1857; 1868)

Field’s simple microscope

Field

A picture containing text

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1875; 1883)

Field’s dissecting and mounting microscope

Field

A picture containing text, old, indoor, vintage

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1875; 1883)

Field’s dissecting and mounting microscope

Field

A picture containing text, device, old

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1856; 1857; 1868)

Gardner’s simple microscope

Gardner

A close-up of a sword

Description automatically generated with medium confidence

W Carpenter (1856; 1857)

Highley’s hospital microscope

Highley

A picture containing text

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1868; 1875)

Ladd’s student’s microscope

Ladd

A picture containing text, old

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1857; 1868; 1875)

Dr. Lawrence Smith’s inverted microscope

Lawrence Smith

A picture containing old

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1901)

Leitz most complete stand (1893)

Leitz

A close-up of a machine

Description automatically generated with low confidence

W Carpenter (1901)

Leitz stand 1a (1898)

Leitz

A picture containing text

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1901)

Leitz’s school microscope

Leitz

A picture containing text

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1868)

Murray and Heath’s student’s microscope

Murray and Heath

A picture containing indoor, old, lamp

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1856)

Nachet’s binocular microscope

Nachet

A picture containing gear

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1856)

Nachet’s compound microscope

Nachet

A picture containing old

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1857; 1868; 1875; 1883)

Nachet’s binocular microscope

Nachet

W Carpenter (1857; 1868; 1875)

Nachet’s double bodied microscope

Nachet

A picture containing screw, gear

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1857)

Nachet’s larger compound microscope

Nachet

W Carpenter (1857)

Nachet’s smaller compound microscope

Nachet

A picture containing wall, indoor, old

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1868; 1875; 1883)

Nachet’s student’s microscope

Nachet

A picture containing old, metal

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1868; 1875)

Nachet’s stereo-pseudoscopie microscope

Nachet

A picture containing text, old

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1883)

Nachet’s chemical microscope

Nachet

A close-up of a machine

Description automatically generated with medium confidence

W Carpenter (1883)

Nachet’s large mineralogical microscope

Nachet

A picture containing old

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1883)

Nachet’s stereo-pseudoscopie microscope

Nachet

A picture containing text, old, vintage

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1891)

Nachet’s chemical microscope

Nachet

A picture containing wall, indoor

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1891; 1901)

Nelson’s microscope lamp

Nelson

A picture containing text

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1891; 1901)

Nelson’s model (1882)

Nelson

A picture containing wall, indoor, old

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1883)

Parkes’s educational microscope

Parkes

A picture containing text, old

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1868; 1875)

Pillischer’s small student’s microscope

Pillischer

A picture containing text, weapon

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1883)

Pillischer’s international microscope

Pillischer

W Carpenter (1891; 1901)

H Powell’s microscope (1841)

Powell

A picture containing weapon

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1856; 1857; 1868)

Powell and Lealand’s large compound microscope H2

Powell and Lealand

Diagram, engineering drawing

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1868; 1875; 1883)

Powell and Lealand’s large microscope

Powell and Lealand

A picture containing old

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1875; 1883)

Powell and Lealand’s smaller microscope

Powell and Lealand

A close-up of a machine

Description automatically generated with low confidence

W Carpenter (1891; 1901)

Powell and Lealand No. 1 stand (1872)

Powell and Lealand

A close-up of an object

Description automatically generated with low confidence

W Carpenter (1891; 1901)

Powell and Lealand’s portable microscope (1848)

Powell and Lealand

A close-up of a microscope

Description automatically generated with low confidence

W Carpenter (1891)

Powell and Lealand’s third class microscope

Powell and Lealand

A picture containing weapon, old

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1901)

Powell and Lealand’s microscope (1852)

Powell and Lealand

A picture containing indoor, old

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1891; 1901)

Pritchard’s microscope

Pritchard

A picture containing text

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1856; 1857)

Quekett’s dissecting microscope

Quekett

A picture containing text, businesscard

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1868; 1875; 1883)

Quekett’s dissecting microscope

Quekett

W Carpenter (1901)

Reichert microscope (1900)

Reichert

A picture containing diagram

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1901)

Reichert’s attachable stage

Reichert

A close-up of a microscope

Description automatically generated with low confidence

W Carpenter (1901)

Reichert’s Austrian Bauch stand (1899)

Reichert

A picture containing text

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1901)

Reichert’s large stand IIb (1899)

Reichert

A picture containing text, old

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1901)

Reichert’s metallurgical microscope (1897)

Reichert

A picture containing text

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1901)

Reichert’s stand No. 15 (1890)

Reichert

W Carpenter (1891; 1901)

JL Ridell binocular microscope

Ridell

A picture containing metalware

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1856; 1857; 1868; 1875; 1883; 1891)

Ross simple microscope

Ross

A picture containing metalware

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1856; 1857; 1868; 1875; 1883; 1891)

Ross simple microscope

Ross

A picture containing weapon

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1856; 1857)

Ross’s large compound microscope

Ross

A picture containing text, wall

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1868; 1875; 1883)

Ross’s large microscope; First class microscope

Ross

A picture containing text

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1875)

Ross’s large Jackson model microscope

Ross

A picture containing text

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1883)

Ross’s (Zentmayer) student’s microscope

Ross

A picture containing text

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1883)

Ross’s improved Jackson-Zentmayer microscope

Ross

A close-up of a microscope

Description automatically generated with medium confidence

W Carpenter (1891; 1901)

Ross microscope (1839)

Ross

A picture containing old, engine, automaton

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1891; 1901)

Ross-Zentmayer model (1878)

Ross

A picture containing wall, indoor, old

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1891; 1901)

Ross-Zentmayer model (1878)

Ross

A picture containing indoor, wall, old, blender

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1891; 1901)

Ross’s earlier microscope

Ross

W Carpenter (1891; 1901)

Ross’s original model (1862)

Ross

W Carpenter (1891)

Ross microscope

Ross

A picture containing text, linedrawing

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1891)

Ross radial microscope

Ross

A close-up of a microscope

Description automatically generated with low confidence

W Carpenter (1891)

Ross radial microscope

Ross

A picture containing linedrawing

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1891)

Ross radial microscope

Ross

A drawing of a machine

Description automatically generated with medium confidence

W Carpenter (1891)

Ross radial microscope

Ross

A picture containing wall, old

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1891)

Ross-Jackson model

Ross

W Carpenter (1891)

Ross-Zentmayer model (1878)

Ross

W Carpenter (1901)

Ross model (1842)

Ross

A close-up of a machine

Description automatically generated with medium confidence

W Carpenter (1901)

Ross new bacteriological microscope (1898)

Ross

W Carpenter (1901)

Ross’s educational microscope (1898)

Ross

A close-up of a microscope

Description automatically generated with medium confidence

W Carpenter (1901)

Ross’s new bacteriological microscope (1894)

Ross

A picture containing text, white, old, black

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1891; 1901)

Rousselet’s aquatium microscope

Rousselet

W Carpenter (1891)

E. Schultze’s aquarium microscope

Schultze

A picture containing text

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1856; 1857; 1868; 1875; 1883; 1891)

Shadbolt’s turntable

Shabbolt

A picture containing wall, indoor, old, stone

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1883)

Siebert and Kraft’s dissecting microscope

Siebert and Kraft

A picture containing weapon

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1856; 1857; 1868)

Smith and Beck’s large compound microscope

Smith and Beck

A picture containing text, indoor, old, lamp

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1856; 1857; 1868)

Smith and Beck’s student’s microscope

Smith and Beck

A picture containing text, wall, indoor, old

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1856; 1857)

Smith and Beck’s dissecting microscope

Smith and Beck

A close-up of a gavel and several coins

Description automatically generated with low confidence

W Carpenter (1857)

Smith and Beck’s educational microscope

Smith and Beck

A picture containing text

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1868)

Smith and Beck’s popular microscope

Smith and Beck

A close-up of a machine

Description automatically generated with low confidence

W Carpenter (1891; 1901)

Smith and Beck microscope (1839)

Smith and Beck

A picture containing indoor, old, blender, silver

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1901)

Spencer’s continental form (1896)

Spencer

A drawing of a machine

Description automatically generated with low confidence

W Carpenter (1875)

Swift’s portable microscope

Swift

W Carpenter (1875)

Swift’s portable microscope lamp

Swift

A picture containing text, motorcycle, dirty

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1883)

Swift’s challenge microscope

Swift

A picture containing text, old

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1883)

Swift’s microscope lamp

Swift

A close-up of an object

Description automatically generated with low confidence

W Carpenter (1883)

Swift’s portable binocular

Swift

A picture containing weapon

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1891)

Swift’s fourth class microscope

Swift

A close-up of a machine

Description automatically generated with low confidence

W Carpenter (1891)

Swift’s portable microscope

Swift

W Carpenter (1891)

Swift’s Stephenson’s binocular

Swift

A picture containing wall, indoor, old, wood

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1901)

Swift’s attachable mechanical stage

Swift

A picture containing wall, weapon

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1901)

Swift’s best challenge microscope (1881)

Swift

A picture containing old

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1901)

Swift’s histological and physiological microscope (1894)

Swift

A picture containing text

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1901)

Swift’s improved Wale’s microscope (1881 and 1883)

Swift

A close-up of a machine

Description automatically generated with medium confidence

W Carpenter (1901)

Swift’s portable histological microscope (1894)

Swift

A picture containing old

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1901)

Swift’s Stephenson’s binocular (1887)

Swift

W Carpenter (1891; 1901)

Tully’s achromatic microscope

Tully

W Carpenter (1883; 1891)

Wale’s microscope

Wale

A picture containing text, weapon

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1856; 1857)

Warrington’s universal microscope

Warrington

A picture containing text

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1856; 1857)

Warrington’s universal microscope

Warrington

A picture containing weapon

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1856; 1857)

Warrington’s universal microscope

Warrington

A picture containing text

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1856; 1857)

Warrington’s universal microscope

Warrington

A close-up of a machine

Description automatically generated with medium confidence                           

W Carpenter (1883)

Watson’s large compound microscope

Watson

W Carpenter (1901)

Watson’s Edinburgh student stand H (1893)

Watson

W Carpenter (1901)

Watson’s Edinburgh student’s stand G (1893)

Watson

A close-up of a microscope

Description automatically generated with low confidence

W Carpenter (1901)

Watson’s Fram microscope (1898)

Watson

W Carpenter (1901)

Watson’s school microscope (1899)

Watson

Diagram

Description automatically generated with low confidence

W Carpenter (1901)

Watson’s Van Heurck grand model

Watson

A picture containing text, old

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1891; 1901)

Zeiss’s cover glass tester

Zeiss

A close-up of a machine

Description automatically generated with low confidence

W Carpenter (1891)

Zeiss continental microscope

Zeiss

A picture containing text, indoor

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1891)

Zeiss dissecting microscope

Zeiss

A picture containing microscope

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1891)

Zeiss microscope

Zeiss

A picture containing text, indoor

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1901)

Greenough binocular microscope

Zeiss

W Carpenter (1901)

Zeiss model (1898)

Zeiss

W Carpenter (1901)

Zeiss photomicrographic model (1895)

Zeiss

A picture containing text, device

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1901)

Zeiss’s attachable mechanical stage

Zeiss

A picture containing old

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1901)

Zeiss’s dissecting microscope (1886)

Zeiss

A machine on the counter

Description automatically generated with low confidence

W Carpenter (1901)

Zeiss’s Greenough microscope (1897)

Zeiss

W Carpenter (1901)

Zeiss’s large and complete stand (1895)

Zeiss

W Carpenter (1901)

Zeiss’s stand VIa (1898)

Zeiss

A picture containing wall

Description automatically generated

W Carpenter (1891)

Zentmayer’s microscope

Zentmayer