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Microscope Museum Collection of antique microscopes and other
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Microscope
241 (C. Baker;
student microscope; 1880s)
The
business of Baker was founded in London in about 1765, Charles Baker, who was
born in 1820, giving his name to the company from about 1851. When Charles
Baker died in 1894 the firm continued under the same name but run by the
Curties family until it became, in 1936, Charles Baker & Co. and
subsequently, sometime in the 1940s, C. Baker Ltd. The firm’s address mostly
given as 244 High Holborn, London (but sometimes 243 and 245, sometimes in
combination). The firm produced optical and surgical instruments. In 1963,
Vickers acquired the C Baker Ltd microscope factory and a new company called
Vickers Instruments was formed. Microscope 241 is signed with ‘Baker, 244
High Holborn, London’, being dated to the 1880s. The instrument is a student
microscope and was featured in the 1883, 1886 and 1890 editions of Hogg’s
book ‘The microscope: its history, construction and application’
(Figure 1).
Figure
1.
Baker’s student microscope as featured in the 1883, 1886 and 1890 editions of
Hogg’s book ‘The microscope: its history, construction and application’ References Charles
Baker (https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Charles_Baker), last accessed on
12.08.2020 LAST
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