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  • Left, a woman personifying science instructing her children in how to use a microscope; a woman personifying truth reveals the scene to Father Time. Mezzotint after T.S. Duché, 1787.
  • M0010807: Binocular microscope
  • M0010946: Cuff type microscope by John Marshall, c.1704
  • M0010914: English compound microscope, 17th century
  • William Henry Dallinger. Oil painting by Edgar Thomas, ca. 1884.
  • M0010929: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum exhibition: History of the Microscope, December 1948
  • M0010924: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum exhibition: History of the Microscope, December 1948
  • M0010843: Compound microscope by Joblot
  • George Shadbolt. Photograph.
  • Directions to diagram of double microscope
  • M0010723: Binocular microscope
  • The horizontal achromatic microscope by Charles Chevalier, based on the modified reflecting microscope of Amici.
  • M0010948: Modified screw-barrel microscope signed "G.R. Brander fecit. Augsberg", mid 18th century
  • Achromatic microscope by Powell and Lealand, 1869.
  • Tyndall's apparatus for experiments disproving doctrine of spontaneous generation, used here as a culture chamber. A microscope in a horizontal position with artificial illumination, an oil immersion lens, ect. This is the equipment used by Dallinger and Drysdale for their investigations of the life histories of the manads.
  • M0010952: Binocular microscope no.1925 by W. Watson and Sons, c.1875-1890
  • M0011242: Early form of camera applied to the microscope
  • M0010844: Vignette showing common forms of microscope, from Joblot: <i>Description de plusieurs nouveaux microscopes</i>, 1718
  • M0010953: Achromatic microscope signed "Jas. Smith, London", c.1841-1846
  • Diagram of the double microscope of P. and J. Dolland, opticians, in St. Paul's Church Yard, London. 18th to 19th century.
  • M0010760: Modified form of Hooke's microscope
  • M0010772: Illustration to show the use of the microscope in medicine
  • M0010722: Binocular microscope
  • Directions to diagram of double microscope
  • M0010928: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum exhibition: History of the Microscope, December 1948
  • M0010851: Microscope designed by Hertel
  • M0010918: Achromatic microscope for three observers, 19th century
  • M0010951: Combined lucernal and compound microscope of very large size, by Adamas, late 18th century
  • A compound achromatic microscope of 1857 by Smith and Beck.
  • A scientist looking down a microscope; representing the fight against cancer. Colour lithograph after G. Georget.