Object Details
- Genentech, Inc.
- Olympus
- Description (Brief)
- This inverted microscope was used at Genentech, a biotechnology company. In a traditional light microscope (the kind most often used in high school biology classes), the light source comes from below a slide-mounted specimen and the observer views it from above. By contrast, an inverted microscope’s light source comes from above and the sample is viewed from the bottom.
- This configuration eliminates the need for slide-mounting the specimen for observation and allows the observer to view samples in flasks or petri dishes. For this reason the inverted microscope is particularly useful in work with living cells and tissue culture, allowing both observation and manipulation of the sample.
- Sources:
- Goldstein, David. “Inverted Microscope.” Microscopy-UK. 1998. http://microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/indexmag.html?http://microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artjul98/invert.html
- Olympus. “Inverted biological microscope.” http://www.olympus-global.com/en/corc/history/story/micro/headstand/
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Genentech
- before 1995
- circa 1970
- ID Number
- 2012.0198.60
- accession number
- 2012.0198
- catalog number
- 2012.0198.60
- Object Name
- microscope
- microscope, inverted
- Physical Description
- glass (overall material)
- plastic (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 18 1/2 in x 11 3/8 in x 7 1/2 in; 46.99 cm x 28.8925 cm x 19.05 cm
- overall: 17 3/4 in x 15 in x 11 1/2 in; 45.085 cm x 38.1 cm x 29.21 cm
- used
- United States: California, South San Francisco
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
- Biotechnology and Genetics
- Science & Mathematics
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1428193
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ad-a1a0-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
