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Maker (or retailer)

Brown, O (1986) The Whipple Museum of the History of Science, Catalogue 7 – Microscopes

Compound microscope, G Wale, 1878

Wale

JRMS 1880 (pp. 1045)

Working Microscope

Wale

Wale

JRMS 1881 (pp. 296)

Student Microscope (Wale’s model)

Swift

Swift

J Swift & Son’s catalogue (1892)

‘Wales’ microscope

Swift

JRMS 1885 (pp. 119)

Swift-Wale microscope

Swift

Swift

JRMS 1886 (pp. 1044)

Paragon microscope

Swift

Swift

W Carpenter (1901)

Swift’s improved Wale’s microscope (1881 and 1883)

Swift

Swift

Padgitt DL (1975) A short history of the early American microscope. Microscope Publications Ltd. Chicago

George Wale's original "New Working Microscope" (c. 1879)

Wale

W Carpenter (1883; 1891)

Wale’s microscope

Wale

Wale

J Swift & Son’s catalogue (1892; 1906)

Paragon microscope

Swift

http://www.microscopist.net/FieldR.html

Microscope (R Field & Son; c. 1880)

Field

Hansen, J. L. et al. (1974) The Billings microscope collection. Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, USA

Swift (after 1895)

Swift