M0010920: Portable simple microscope designed and patented by George Lindsay, c.1743

Date:
January 1949
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/96/86
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M0010920: Portable simple microscope designed and patented by George Lindsay, c.1743. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced April 2021: Portable simple microscope

Description

Portable simple brass microscope. The components pack into a small box and are of very neat craftmanship. The microscope was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1949 (accession number R212/1949). It is now held by the Science Musuem (object number A604178).

Publication/Creation

January 1949

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the item (acc. number R212/1949 image 243)

Copyright note

Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2021.

Terms of use

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.

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