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A tiny was sacrificed to the altar of science. Took a number of attempts to get one more or less readable image..
Contributor(s): National Museum of American History (U.S.)
National Museum of American History (U.S.)
Publication: Produced: 1995
Language(s): No linguistic content
Format: Still image
Subject(s): Zea mays
Genre(s): Archival Materials, Photographic prints
Abstract: Photograph of Barbara McClintock's ears of corn (five) and a microscope.
Extent: 1 pages
NLM Unique ID: 101584613X267 (See in Profiles in Science)
Profiles in Science ID: LLBBQT
Permanent Link resource.nlm.nih.gov/101584613X267
Archival Collection: The Barbara McClintock Papers (Profiles in Science)
One of two ornate silver microscopes made by George Adams (1709-1773) of Fleet Street, London, for King George III (1738-1820). It is based on the 'Universal Double Microscope', described by Adams in 1746. It is made of brass and steel, covered in beaten silver.
Photographed in the Science Museum, London, through its glass case.
Use red/cyan anaglyph glasses to see in 3D (red over the left eye)
Taken with a Microscope and attached DSLR camera... I made them into HDR's but otherwise did not feel like editing them. Sorry.
Recent Acquisition
Manufacturer: Andrew Ross, London, UK (1843)
Source: Purchase from Edinburgh, Scotland
Artefact #: 2009.0088
Canada Science and Technology Museum
This microscope is a rare artifact for this period in Canadian history having been used by a woman amateur naturalist in the colonies, while accompanying her husband on his surveying and military missions. It is a portable microscope used by Caroline Bucknall Estcourt (1809-1886) (born Caroline Pole Carew), wife of a British officer, James Bucknall Bucknall Estcourt (1802-1855). Bucknall Escourt was posted to the Canadian colonies in the 1830s and 1840s. Caroline was an amateur naturalist of some note and a painter. Some of her graphic collections are preserved at the Library and Archives Canada including portraits, sporting scenes, landscapes and her journal.
It is also a significant microscope from 1843, incorporating one of the earliest commercial, portable achromatic lens systems (serial no. 68) made by the well-known instrument maker, Andrew Ross of London. Because of its colourful provenance and technical significance, it is one the most important optical microscopes in the collection.