Microscope Museum

Collection of antique microscopes and other scientific instruments

 

      

 

Image

Source

Observations from the source

Maker (or retailer)

Bausch & Lomb’s catalogue (1892)

N – university microscope

Bausch & Lomb

W Carpenter (1891)

Bausch and Lomb’s university microscope

Bausch and Lomb

Bausch & Lomb

JRMS 1887 (pp. 141)

Combined Inverted and Vertical Microscope,

University model

Bausch & Lomb

Bausch & Lomb

Bradbury, S (1967) The evolution of the microscope, Oxford

Ross (1831)

Ross

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

Valentine type microscope, c. 1832

Ross

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

Ross (1831)

Ross

W Carpenter (1891; 1901)

Ross’s earlier microscope

Ross

Ross

JRMS 1888 (pp. 1022)

Microscope

Ross

Ross

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

Varley’s vial microscope

Varley

W Carpenter (1891; 1901)

Pritchard’s microscope

Pritchard

Pritchard

JRMS 1888 (pp. 1022)

Microscope

Pritchard

Pritchard

L’ Industrie Française des Instruments de Précision’s catalogue (1901)

Microscope special pour l’etude des echantilons metalliques (Nachet)

Nachet

Nachet’s catalogue (1904)

Nouveau microscope metallographique

Nachet

Charles Chevalier’s catalogue (1859)

Microscope polarisant d’Amici

Chevalier

S Plossl’s catalogue (1874)

Plossl’s grosses microscop

Plossl

S Plossl’s catalogue (1874)

Plossl’e mittleres microscop

Plossl

S Plossl’s catalogue (1874)

Plossl’s kleines microscop

Plossl

Turner, G. E. (1981) Collecting Microscopes (Christie's South Kensington collectors series). Littlehampton Book Services Ltd

Utzschneider, Reichenbach & Fraunhofer (1809 – 1814)

Utzschneider, Reichenbach & Fraunhofer

Dippel L (1867) Das mikroskop und seine anwendung

Nobert

Norbert

JRMS 1890 (pp. 86)

Micrometer-Microscope

Nobert

Nobert

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

Norbert’s large micrometer microscope (1862)

Norbert

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

Compound microscope, 1870 - 1880

Nobert

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

Compound microscope, 1840 - 1868

Plossl

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

Compound microscope, 1840 - 1860

Plossl

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

Unsigned (c. 1845)

Of the type designed by Pacini

 

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

Unsigned (1845)

 

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

Unsigned (c. 1845)

 

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

Unsigned (1860 - 1880)

 

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

Unsigned (1860 - 1880)

 

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

Unsigned (1860 - 1880)

 

Edouard Lutz’s catalogue (c1890)

Microscope polarisant, modèle de M. Descloizeaux

Lutz

Edouard Lutz’s catalogue (c1890)

Microscope polarisant, grand modèle perfectionné pour projections

Lutz

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

Pritchard type compound microscope, c. 1835

 

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

Lever stage microscope, c. 1843

Varley

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

Polarising binocular microscope, c. 1890

Ahrens

E Leybolds Nachfolger (1905)

Microscope polarisante

 

Wilhelm Kaiser (1906) Die Technik des modernen mikroskopes

Fuess

Fuess