Object Details
- Nachet et Fils
- Description
- Small compound monocular microscope with coarse and fine focus, square stage, inclination joint, condenser on an arm, sub-stage mirror, and solid base. The “NACHET ET FILS / rue Serpente, 16, Paris” inscription refers to an important French optical firm that was begun by Camille Sebastien Nachet in 1839, that became Nachet et Fils around mid-century, and that moved from this address around 1862.
- Ref: Nachet et Fils, Catalogue Descriptive des Instruments de Micrographie (Paris, 1863), p. 12.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Albert Fitch Memorial Library, Pennsylvania College of Optometry
- 1856-1862
- ID Number
- 1991.0682.01
- catalog number
- 1991.0682.01
- accession number
- 1991.0682
- Object Name
- microscope
- Physical Description
- brass (overall material)
- glass (overall material)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 25.9 cm x 8 cm x 11.8 cm; 10 3/16 in x 3 5/32 in x 4 21/32 in
- place made
- France: Île-de-France, Paris
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Microscopes
- Science & Mathematics
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1081285
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-2d43-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
