Vintage 40X pocket microscopes

Artifact Number:

2023-011

Description

Two, 9 cm long, 40X pocket microscopes. These microscopes, made by the King Microscope Company of Japan, were used as inspection scopes in the Physics Division of Chalk River during the 1950s. Both were wrapped and packaged in their original boxes when donated.

Details

Keywords:

physics tool

Date:

Possibly 1940-1950 era.

Notes:

No specific date could be determined but it these artifacts arrived with others from the 1940-1950 era.

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