This elegantly crafted binocular compound microscope was popular for dissecting and anatomical studies in the 1920s and 1930s. The model featured below was redrawn from photographs of the original microscope, which is part of the Billings microscope collection at Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington DC.

The stage plate holds a smaller beveled glass stage and is attached where the limb and horseshoe base meet. Focus is accomplished with a rack and pinion mechanism that moves the microscope head upward and downward. The binocular body tubes are five and a quarter inches long and rest on a curved arm, attached to the paired objectives, which are mounted in a drum.

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