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In pictures posted on the Olympus website from the 1930's, all of the microscopes pictured have the same style of focusing knobs. They appear to be of a type of compound with an insert : most likely bakelite. It was not until after W.W. II that they started using solid brass knobs with chrome plati...

That would be an interesting article if it were all true: especially the part about American Optical, which is pure invention or misinterptetation at best. The horseshoe microscope base design goes way back to what is called the Continental stand design. Opposed to this was the American base or mor...

The overall look of your instrument does not point to the 1930's as a manufacturing date. There are many Japanese instruments that used similar castings or machinings and any of those I have seen that have a similar form with chrome instead of nickel , are from the late 40's on. I'm sure there are ...

Very nice ‘scope … definitely worth researching ! I presume you are aware of this ‘timeline’ : https://www.olympus-lifescience.com/en/technology/museum/micro/ MichaelG. Thanks! And yes, I did some digging and found that page. That was unfortunately all I could find at the moment. Still digging for ...

You may find this interesting. https://www.microbehunter.com/microscopy-forum/viewtopic.php?t=1637 https://www.olympus-global.com/company/milestones/founding.html?page=company http://www.tiyodaoptical.com/?Katera Note that the company was called Takachiho Optical Co. until 1949, when it was changed...

Hello, I have this Olympus Microscope which I assume is from the 1940s based on the objectives themselves and the manual (which is in Japanese) that has no Hiragana and some kanji which are no longer used. I bought this microscope through an auction and there are 2 Olympus objectives and one other w...

Hello, I came across this organism while observing a water sample from a pond. I have attached 2 images of the organism. The organism seems to have cilia all around it but have not seen any other features. It can swim but it keeps rolling while doing so. I used a microscope camera and the lowest obj...

How would I find this out and measure it? Sorry this is still new to me.

Hello everyone, I have a question regarding the magnification of microscope cameras. I am unsure on how to calculate the magnification. The microscope camera is “Hayear 16mp (Hy-2307) and the sensor size is 1/2.3 with a 0.5 reduction lense. The size of the image on my laptop is around 30cm long diag...

Hello everyone! I found mold growing on some moss which seemed interesting and I decided that I wanted to make a permanent slide with the mold using mounting medium. I ,however, am not sure which mounting medium is suitable for preserving mold. I am just looking for a mounting medium that is used fo...