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This digital collection features selected scientific instruments, apparatus, and analytical tools from the Institute's museum as well as photographs, rare-book engravings, and illustrations depicting various types of equipment and machinery found in laboratories, manufacturing plants, and mechanical treatises. Inventions from book wheels to fireballs can be found here, alongside more modern innovations such as Gammacells and Geiger counters.

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    Scientific apparatus and instruments

    Series Sixty student microscope

    • 1955 – 1960

    American Optical Corporation Sixty student model monocular microscope features American Optical Spencer objective lenses.

    American Optical Corporation was a successor to the Spencer Lens Company, founded by Charles…

    • Manufacturer American Optical Corporation
    • Subject Microscopes, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Science--Study and teaching, American Optical Corporation

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