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. Modern microscopy; a handbook for beginners and students, combining. Microscopy. Microtomes: their Choice and Use 233 and perhaps more. It is, unfortunately, impossible to adjust the object in any precise direction when once fixed to the plain object-holder. To remedy this defect the company have introduced an orientating object-holder. In this the cup to which the object is fixed moves in a horizontal and vertical direction by means of a ball-and-socket joint. A milled-head screw and a spiral spring control the vertical. Fig. 58.—R. akd J. Beck's Del^ipine Miceotome. movement, the horizonta
. Modern microscopy; a handbook for beginners and students, combining. Microscopy. Microtomes: their Choice and Use 233 and perhaps more. It is, unfortunately, impossible to adjust the object in any precise direction when once fixed to the plain object-holder. To remedy this defect the company have introduced an orientating object-holder. In this the cup to which the object is fixed moves in a horizontal and vertical direction by means of a ball-and-socket joint. A milled-head screw and a spiral spring control the vertical. Fig. 58.—R. akd J. Beck's Del^ipine Miceotome. movement, the horizontal movement being effected by two milled nuts; these two movements, together with that obtained by rotating the object-holder, allow the object to be orientated very precisely. Another microtome, similar in principle to those just described, has been devised by Mr. Hugh McLeake, of. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Cross, M. I; Cole, Martin J. Chicago, W. T. Keener & Co.
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