Microscope Museum

Collection of antique microscopes and other scientific instruments

 

      

James Swift (London, England)

In this page you will find images of instruments made by James Swift, found in their own trade catalogues, catalogues of other retailers, antique books, volumes of the Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, and other sources.

 

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Source

Observations from the source

Claudius Ash & Sons (1886)

Microscope lamp

Down Bros’s catalogue (1906)

Microscope lamp (Swift)

Down Bros’s catalogue (1906)

Microscope lamp (Swift)

J Swift & Son’s catalogue (1892; 1906)

Dunning’s new portable oil tight lamp

J Swift & Son’s catalogue (1892)

Best microscope lamp

J Swift & Son’s catalogue (1892)

Cheap microscope lamp

J Swift & Son’s catalogue (1892)

Microscope lamp

J Swift & Son’s catalogue (1906)

Extra large lamp for photography

J Swift & Son’s catalogue (1906)

Incandescent lamp for the microscope

J Swift & Son’s catalogue (1906)

Microscope lamp

J Swift & Son’s catalogue (1906)

New pattern microscope lamp

J Swift & Son’s catalogue (1910s)

Nelson-Dallinger oil lamp

J Swift & Son’s catalogue (1914)

Nelson-Dallinger lamp

J Swift & Son’s catalogue (1914)

Popular lamp

J. Swift’s catalogue (1860s; 1870s)

Microscopist’s lamp

J. Swift’s catalogue (1870s)

Cheap microscope lamp

JRMS 1884 (pp. 125)

Nelson's Microscope Lamp

Reynolds & Branson’s catalogue (1887)

Swift’s microscope lamp

Reynolds & Branson’s catalogue (1887)

Swift’s portable microscope lamp

W Carpenter (1883)

Swift’s microscope lamp

Whethered (1892)

Microscope lamp

J Swift & Son’s catalogue (1910s)

Popular oil lamp

A close-up of a device

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Bracegirdle (2005) A catalogue of the microscopy collections at the science museum, London, Little Imp Publications (CD)

Portable oil lamp for microscope, 1870 - 1880

Gallenkamp’s catalogue (1939)

Intensity electric lamp (Swift)

J Swift & Son’s catalogue (1910s)

Opalex A electric lamp

J Swift & Son’s catalogue (1914)

Arc lamp

J Swift & Son’s catalogue (1910s)

Incandescent gas lamp

J Swift & Son’s catalogue (1914)

Incandescent gas lamp

J Swift & Son’s catalogue (1906)

New form of Nernst electric lamp

J Swift & Son’s catalogue (1914)

Improved Nernst electric lamp

J Swift & Son’s catalogue (1910s)

Pointolite B electric lamp

J Swift & Son’s catalogue (1910s)

Thorlux gas lamp

James Swifft & Son’s catalogue (1949)

Lab microscope lamp

James Swifft & Son’s catalogue (1949)

Intensity electrical lamp

James Swifft & Son’s catalogue (1949)

Opalex electric lamp

James Swifft & Son’s catalogue (1960s)

Intensity lamp

J Swift & Son’s catalogue (1892)

Mayall’s mechanical stage

J Swift & Son’s catalogue (1906)

New patent mechanical stage

JRMS 1894 (pp. 509)

New Mechanical Stage

JRMS 1907 (pp. 218)

Turrell Mechanical Stage

Spitta (1907; 1920)

Mechanical stage

Turner (1989) The great age of the microscope (Catalogue of the RMS collection)

Stage mechanical, Traviss type (Swift)

Turner (1989) The great age of the microscope (Catalogue of the RMS collection)

Stage mechanical, Traviss type (Swift)

W Carpenter (1901)

Swift’s attachable mechanical stage

James Swifft & Son’s catalogue (1949)

Mechanical stage of universal microscope

James Swifft & Son’s catalogue (1949)

Mechanical stage of research microscope

James Swifft & Son’s catalogue (1960s)

Plain round stage MK 5

James Swifft & Son’s catalogue (1960s)

Plain square stage MK 1

James Swifft & Son’s catalogue (1960s)

Mechanical stage MK 2

James Swifft & Son’s catalogue (1960s)

Racking stage for metallurgical models

James Swifft & Son’s catalogue (1960s)

Mechanical stage MK 6

James Swifft & Son’s catalogue (1960s)

Mechanical stage MK 6

James Swifft & Son’s catalogue (1960s)

Mushroom stage MK 12

James Swifft & Son’s catalogue (1960s)

Automatic point counter MK 30

Brown, O (1986) The Whipple Museum of the History of Science, Catalogue 7 – Microscopes

Rocking microscope, J Swift & Son, 1st quarter of 20th century

JRMS 1881 (pp. 698)

Williams's Freezing Microtome

Bracegirdle (2005) A catalogue of the microscopy collections at the science museum, London, Little Imp Publications (CD)

Fearnley-Groves-Williams ether freezing microtome, c. 1885

Bracegirdle (2005) A catalogue of the microscopy collections at the science museum, London, Little Imp Publications (CD)

Groves-Williams ether freezing microtome, c. 1890

Bracegirdle (2005) A catalogue of the microscopy collections at the science museum, London, Little Imp Publications (CD)

Groves-Williams ether freezing microtome, c. 1890

JRMS 1882 (pp. 432)

Improved Microtome

JRMS 1879 (pp. 23)

Camera lucida

J Swift & Son’s catalogue (1892; 1906)

Ramsden positive eyepiece micrometer

JRMS 1886 (pp. 1052)

Cam Mechanical Stage

JRMS 1907 (pp. 218)

Substage with Patent Slow Focusing

Turner (1989) The great age of the microscope (Catalogue of the RMS collection)

Condenser, Webster (Swift)

Turner (1989) The great age of the microscope (Catalogue of the RMS collection)

Webster condenser fitted with Collin’s graduating diaphragm (Swift)

Turner (1989) The great age of the microscope (Catalogue of the RMS collection)

Condenser, Hall (Swift)

Turner (1989) The great age of the microscope (Catalogue of the RMS collection)

Condenser, Hall (Swift)

A close-up of a microscope

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Bracegirdle (2005) A catalogue of the microscopy collections at the science museum, London, Little Imp Publications (CD)

Oblique substage illuminator, 1880 - 1890

J Swift & Son’s catalogue (1892)

Dunning’s turntable

J Swift & Son’s catalogue (1906)

Draper’s improved dichroiscope

JRMS 1884 (pp. 960)

Goniometer Stage

JRMS 1907 (pp. 100)

Stereoscopic Photo-micrographic Attachment for Monocular Microscopes

JRMS 1907 (pp. 220)

Draper’s improved dichroscope

A black and white photo of a machine

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James Swift’s catalogue (27th edition)

Binocular head

James Swifft & Son’s catalogue (1949)

Abbe camera lucida

James Swifft & Son’s catalogue (1960s)

Swift-Ives camera lucida

James Swifft & Son’s catalogue (1960s)

Substage illuminator

James Swifft & Son’s catalogue (1960s)

Substage illuminator

James Swifft & Son’s catalogue (1949)

Autolux vertical illuminator

James Swifft & Son’s catalogue (1949)

Epilux illuminator

James Swifft & Son’s catalogue (1949)

Attachable cone camera

James Swifft & Son’s catalogue (1960s)

Goniometer eyepiece

James Swifft & Son’s catalogue (1960s)

Wright eyepiece MS 305

James Swifft & Son’s catalogue (1960s)

Babinet compensator

James Swifft & Son’s catalogue (1960s)

Babinet compensator

James Swifft & Son’s catalogue (1960s)

Attachable cone camera