The Romance of the Microscope: An interesting description of its uses in all branches of science, industry, agriculture, and in the detection of crime, with a short account of its origin, history, and developmentEaland, C. A. (Charles Aubrey)
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The Romance of the Microscope: An interesting description of its uses in all branches of science, industry, agriculture, and in the detection of crime, with a short account of its origin, history, and development
Ealand, C. A. (Charles Aubrey)
Microscopes; Microscopy
With a lens of such a focal length we shall require a camera with
very long bellows to obtain much magnification of our object but, if
our camera is one with only short bellows, we can still overcome our
difficulties. If the extra expense is no object we can obtain one of
the excellent Aldis lenses of only two inches focal length, especially
designed for this work; if we are ingenious we can construct a device
which will answer our purpose admirably and cost but a few pence. With
the simple apparatus we are about to describe photo-micrographs up to
ten diameters magnification can be obtained in most cameras. The term,
ten diameters, may appear puzzling but really it is quite simple.
Suppose we wish to make a photo-micrograph of a penny stamp and we wish
it to be magnified ten diameters, we should require a large camera
for the operation, but that, for the moment, is beside the point. Our
penny stamp, magnified ten diameters, would be equal in area to ten
horizontal rows of stamps, each row containing ten stamps or, in other
words, it would occupy the same area as one hundred penny stamps.
To find the magnification possible with our camera and lens, extend
the camera bellows to the full and set up a foot rule in front of the
lens. Move the camera from a distance slowly towards the rule till it
is sharply focussed, then carefully measure the distance between the
inch lines on the focussing screen; if the lines are three inches apart
we shall be able to make photo-micrographs three times the size of our
object and we shall probably desire something better.
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