Highley's Educational Microscope Compendium. c. 1865

Highley's Educational Microscope

Highley's Educational Microscope

Highley's Educational Microscope

 

Highley's Educational Microscope

Note that the coarse focus utilizes fusee chain drive. In How to Work with the Microscope, lectures by Lionel Smith Beale-1861, it is implied that some microscopes designed by Samuel Highley were manufactured by William Ladd, London who first introduced the use of a fusee chain mechanism in 1851.

    Highly's Educational Microscope-1867

    Illustration from the British Medical Journal 1867

    This microscope was found cased with a separate  Aquarium Microscope which uses the same optics.

 

Highleys educational microscope

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