M0018155: Microscope designed by Lionel Smith Beale, c.1860-70

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Microscope designed by Lionel Smith Beale, circa 1860-70.

Photograph of a microscope designed by Lionel Smith Beale for class teaching and clinical work. When the instrument has been focused, the tube may be fixed, so that the setting is not altered when the instrument is passed from one person to another. It was purchased at auction by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1920 and accessioned in 1926 (accession number R17795).

August 1960

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the item: acc. number R17795

Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

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 2022.

This item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.