My friend, Terry
Silk, recently lent me three boxes of slides, apparently of
considerable age. Terry bought these from a market stall about
twenty years ago in either Tiverton or Taunton in England. Who made these slides?
Text and Images by Peter Strong
My friend, Terry
Silk, recently lent me three boxes of slides, apparently of
considerable age. Terry bought these from a market stall about
twenty years ago in either Tiverton or Taunton in England.
I thought it would be interesting to try and find out the origin of the slides - and where better to try then on the world-wide web.
Maybe you can help track down their source?
The boxes are roughly cubical, about 90mm x 95mm and
around 65mm in height. They are dark grey in colour. Here is a
closer look at one of the boxes I photographed in Black &
White.
Not a lot to go on, I know.
Inside any of the boxes, the slides are neatly
contained with many of the slides being 50mm wide x 75mm long and
2mm thick. The boxes also contain slides of the standard size.
All the slides are of rock sections.
Making allowance for age, they are well made and contain igneous
rock sections - essentially granite - from Australia and South
Africa. There seems nothing unusual about the rocks concerned.
Most are labelled as per this example.
"Now, the interesting questions are: who was this widely travelled geologist, and why was he so interested in igneous rock?" Any ideas..?
Editor's note: the Microscopy UK and Micscape Editors would like to thank Peter Strong, who is a new contributor to Micscape magazine, for submitting this original article.
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