Microscope Museum

Collection of antique microscopes and other scientific instruments

 

      

 

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Charles Baker’s catalogue (1858)

No. 3, student’s microscope

Baker

Hogg (1856; 1858; 1859)

Student’s microscope

Baker

Baker

Hogg (1858)

No. 3, student’s microscope

Baker

Baker

Turner, G. E. (1975) Catalogue of Microscopes, Museo Di Storia Della Scienza. Giunti, Rome

Baker (c. 1860)

Baker

Turner, G. E. (1975) Catalogue of Microscopes, Museo Di Storia Della Scienza. Giunti, Rome

Baker (c. 1860)

Baker

Turner, G. E. (1975) Catalogue of Microscopes, Museo Di Storia Della Scienza. Giunti, Rome

Baker (c. 1860)

Baker

King (1859)

Microscope

Foster

Foster

King (1859)

Microscope

Foster

Foster

King (1859)

Microscope

 

King (1859)

Microscope

Queen

Queen

W McAllister’s catalogue (1867)

McAllister’s complete family microscope (13 inches high)

McAllister

J. Queen’s catalogue (1870; 1872)

Family microscope, 12 inches high

Queen

Hansen, J. L. et al. (1974) The Billings microscope collection. Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, USA

J & W Grunow (before 1859)

Grunow

J & W Grunow’s catalogue (1857)

No. 3, student’s microscope

Grunow

King (1859)

Smaller students’ microscope

Grunow

Grunow

J & W Grunow’s catalogue (1857)

No. 7, large microscope

Grunow

King (1859)

Large microscope

Grunow

Grunow

Padgitt DL (1975) A short history of the early American microscope. Microscope Publications Ltd. Chicago

Grunow's large microscope (c . 1855)

Grunow

Padgitt DL (1975) A short history of the early American microscope. Microscope Publications Ltd. Chicago

McAllister's largest microscope of 1876

McAllister

W McAllister’s catalogue (1867)

Iron stand (13 inches high)

McAllister

Hansen, J. L. et al. (1974) The Billings microscope collection. Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, USA

F Miller & Bro. (before 1879)

Miller

Negretti & Zambra’s catalogue (1870s; 1885; late 1800s)

No. 1 educational microscope

Negretti & Zambra

J Parkes & Son’s catalogue (1857)

Student’s model microscope

Parkes

J Parkes & Son’s catalogue (1862)

Student’s model microscope

Parkes

Spencer, Browning & CO’s catalogue (1857)

Student’s model microscope

Spencer, Browning & CO

Hansen, J. L. et al. (1974) The Billings microscope collection. Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, USA

Pike (c. 1878)

Pike

J. Queen’s catalogue (1872)

Achromatic microscope, 12 inches high

Queen

King (1859)

Microscope

Queen

Queen

JRMS 1900 (pp. 550)

Microscope, Several models

Smith

Smith

Hansen, J. L. et al. (1974) The Billings microscope collection. Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, USA

Smith & Beck (1850)

Smith & Beck

Hansen, J. L. et al. (1974) The Billings microscope collection. Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, USA

Smith & Beck (c. 1850)

Smith & Beck

Brown, O (1986) The Whipple Museum of the History of Science, Catalogue 7 – Microscopes

Compound microscope, Smith & Beck, 1849

Smith & Beck

Nuttall, R. H. (1979) Microscopes from the Frank collection, 1800-1860. A. Frank, Jersey, Channel Islands

Student’s microscope

Smith & Beck (1850)

Smith & Beck

Nuttall, R. H. (1979) Microscopes from the Frank collection, 1800-1860. A. Frank, Jersey, Channel Islands

Student’s microscope

Smith & Beck (1853)

Smith & Beck

Nuttall, R. H. (1979) Microscopes from the Frank collection, 1800-1860. A. Frank, Jersey, Channel Islands

Best plain students

Smith & Beck (1854)

Smith & Beck

Quekett (1848; 1852)

Student microscopes

Smith and Beck

Smith & Beck

Turner GE (1989) The great age of the microscope (Catalogue of the RMS collection), Bristol

Smith, Beck & Beck (1865)

Smith & Beck

W Carpenter (1856; 1857; 1868)

Smith and Beck’s student’s microscope

Smith and Beck

Smith & Beck

R. Beck (1865)

No. 3 stand, second class microscope

Smith, Beck & Beck

Smith, Beck & Beck

Smith, Beck & Beck’s catalogue (1865)

The best student’s, or No. 3 stand

Smith, Beck & Beck

W Carpenter (1875)

Beck’s student’s microscope

Beck

Hansen, J. L. et al. (1974) The Billings microscope collection. Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, USA

Maker unknown (c. 1870)

 

Bracegirdle (2005) A catalogue of the microscopy collections at the science museum, London, Little Imp Publications (CD)

Student microscope, 1855

Smith & Beck

Bracegirdle (2005) A catalogue of the microscopy collections at the science museum, London, Little Imp Publications (CD)

Microscope, 1857

Smith & Beck

Bracegirdle (2005) A catalogue of the microscopy collections at the science museum, London, Little Imp Publications (CD)

Compound microscope, 1858

Smith & Beck

Bracegirdle (2005) A catalogue of the microscopy collections at the science museum, London, Little Imp Publications (CD)

Binocular microscope, 1863

Smith & Beck

Bracegirdle (2005) A catalogue of the microscopy collections at the science museum, London, Little Imp Publications (CD)

Incomplete petrological stand, 1860 - 1880

Browning

JG Richardson (1871) A handbook of medical microscopy

Woodward’s student microscope

James Queen

R Beck (1865) A treatise on the construction proper use and capabilities of Smith Beck and Becks achromatic microscopes

Stand No. 3

Smith, Beck & Beck

Societe Genevoise’s catalogue (1900)

Microscope, small model

Societe Genevoise

Societe Centrale de Produits Chimiques (1891)

Microscope

 

James Queen (1870)

Queen’s family microscope

 

James Queen (1870)

Achromatic microscope, 12 inches high

 

Negretti & Zambra (1878)

No. 1 educational microscope