Microscope

Description

Wilson and Ellis brass microscope, by Dollond, London, c. 1760

Museum reference

T.1925.7

Collection

History of Science

Object name

Microscope, Microscope

Production information

Dollond and Co., 1750 - 1927, Instrument maker
London, England, Northern Europe

Date

c. 1760

Materials

Fish skin, Wood, Velvet, Brass

Physical description

Brass pillar / fish skin case / ivory slides / glass slide

Associations

Eponym: Wilson
Eponym: Ellis

Exhibitions

• Microscopes: Nature Revealed (29 Mar 2019 - 15 Sep 2019)
  National Museum of Scotland

References

Turner, Gerard L'Estrange., The Great Age of the Microscope: the Collection of the Royal Microscopical Society through 150 years. Bristol & New York, 1989 pp 270-72