Year/Period |
1959-1962 |
Maker |
COOKE, TROUGHTON & SIMMS |
Country |
United Kingdom |
Signature |
MADE BY / COOKE, / TROUGHTON, / & SIMMS, LTD. / AT YORK, ENGLAND. / M130264 // PAT. No 863102 |
Category |
Microscopes |
Optical 1 |
Compound |
Optical 2 |
Achromatic |
Inventory number |
SM 61 |
The McArthur microscope was designed around 1930 by the Glasgow physician John McArthur. The instrument is very compactly built, which was made possible by inserting two rectangular prisms in the optical path. Many versions were made during the second half of the twentieth century, this one by Cooke Troughton and Simms is very rare, reportedly not more than 1000 were made. On its tripod stand with a flat mirror, a condenser and a stage for standard microscopical slides and three objective lenses in a sledge, magnifying 10×, 40× and 100×.
See also SM 453.
Compound non-achromatisch microscope after Culpeper
CULPEPER
ca. 1735
Simple microscope, box with lenses and components
ONBEKEND/UNKNOWN
1750-1800
Compound achromatic microscope, ‘Standard Junior KFT’
ZEISS
1955-1960
Compound achromatic polarisation microscope, stand III M
LEITZ
1936-1937