Details
William Greenwood, England
A mahogany-body and lacquered-brass Greenwood-Wallwork projecting microscope with two sets of three rotating objective holders, lateral adjustments, centre-spot, objectives and lamphouse, in a maker's wood box; manuscript Notes on the Greenwood Wallwork Lantern Microscope by Arthur F. Greenwood and William Greenwood A New Form of Lantern Microscope read March 1st 1894 reprinted from the Transactions and Annual Report of the Manchester Microscopical Society
Literature
British patent no. 158 (3 January 1894)
Manchester Microscopical Socity Transactions and Annual Report 1894, p. 9-14.
Further details
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Lot Essay

Greenwood described a new design of lantern microscope which carried a number of objectives and matching condensers so that 'an object, having been focused, may be examined under various powers by rotating the discs without it being necessary to refocus it. Further, the large stage may be moved away...to allow the insertion of an alum-trough &C. without disturbing the focus'.

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