Object Details
- Meccano
- Description
- Simple compound monocular with a push-tube focus, hinged joint, square stage, sub-stage mirror, and square base. It comes with slides and apparatus for simple chemical experiments. The inscription on the box reads “MECCANO / MICROSCOPE / SET / with Polaroid Junior . . . The Meccano Company of America, Inc. / 290 Fifth Avenue New York, N.Y. U.S.A.”
- Frank Hornby, of Liverpool, introduced the first Meccano construction sets in 1901. Meccano microscope sets were available by the 1930s.
- Ref: M. P. Gould, Frank Hornby: The Boy who made $1,000,000 with a Toy (1915).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- William H. Yeingst
- ID Number
- 1992.0508.01
- catalog number
- 1992.0508.01
- accession number
- 1992.0508
- Object Name
- microscope set
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- glass (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 10.2 cm x 25.4 cm x 45.7 cm; 4 1/32 in x 10 in x 18 in
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
- Microscopes
- Science & Mathematics
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Science & Scientific Instruments
- Record ID
- nmah_1163582
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-e546-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
