Pike Maker, 930 Broadway New York, No. 1181

Fusee chain focusing microscope, c. 1880

Pike Maker, 930 Broadway New York, No. 1181. Fusee chain focusing microscope, c. 1880 Pike Maker, 930 Broadway New York, No. 1181. Fusee chain focusing microscope, c. 1880
Pike Maker, 930 Broadway New York, No. 1181

Benjamin Pike Senior emigrated to the United States in 1804. He established an optician's business in New York supplying scientific instruments. His three sons, Benjamin Jr., Daniel, and Gardiner carried on in the business with the father and later on their own, sometimes as partners and, at other times, as competitors (see this and this). This particular microscope is a copy of T. H. McAllister's Professional Model Microscope. It was made under the auspices of Daniel Pike.






fusee chain focusing



This Pike microscope has the coarse focus mechanism utilizing a fusee chain instead of the much more common rack and pinon method used by most other manufactures. The fine adjustment utilizes a long-lever mechanism, which moves the tube with the limb remaining stationary.

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