Highley's Educational Microscope Compendium. c. 1865
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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. |
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Illustration from the British Medical Journal 1867 |
This microscope was found cased with a separate Aquarium Microscope which uses the same optics.
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