Travelling Microscope

Introduction The bed is of a heavy casting, thoroughly aged and machined, is fitted with leveling screws. On the dovetail guide ways slides the horizontal carriage which can be clamped at any position by means of a thumbscrew. A second sliding carriage slides along a gunmetal vertical pillar fitted on the horizontal carriage. The slow motion guide bars are made of sturdy material and the motion is very smooth. Optics True achromatic objective with 7.5 cm. focussing distance from object 10X Ramsden Eyepiece with fine cross wire Scale and Vernier Horizontal scale : 20cm divided at 0.5mm interval Vertical scale : 15cm divided at 0.5mm interval Vernier scale : 50 divisions with a least count of 0.01mm