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The oldest microscope in the museum

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In the store-rooms of the National Museum of American History curators recently discovered a small microscope made around 1750 by John Cuff (1708-1772), a talented instrument maker whose shop was found “directly against Serjeant’s-Inn Gate in Fleet-Street,” London. Click here to learn more.

 

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