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FYI--Early in the years (1940s and 1950s) of operation of Pittsburgh's original Buhl Planetarium and Institute of Popular Science (which was Pittsburgh's science and technology museum 1939-1991), Lecture Hall demonstrations included the "Micro-Zoo" which used a device called an epideoscope (early overhead projector with a microscope).

General information about the Micro-Zoo and photo of epideoscope:
http://buhlplanetarium2.tripod.com/Buhlexhibits.htm#microzoo

Technical information about the epideoscope:
http://buhlplanetarium.tripod.com/BuhlAidesbookc8p82.JPG

Staff instructions for presentation of the Micro-Zoo and use of the epideoscope:
http://buhlplanetarium.tripod.com/BuhlAidesbookc8p81.JPG

At the following links is the text of a 1953 MicroZoo lecture:

http://buhlplanetarium.tripod.com/BuhlAidesbookc8p70.JPG
http://buhlplanetarium.tripod.com/BuhlAidesbookc8p71.JPG
http://buhlplanetarium.tripod.com/BuhlAidesbookc8p72.JPG
http://buhlplanetarium.tripod.com/BuhlAidesbookc8p73.JPG
http://buhlplanetarium.tripod.com/BuhlAidesbookc8p74.JPG
http://buhlplanetarium.tripod.com/BuhlAidesbookc8p75.JPG
http://buhlplanetarium.tripod.com/BuhlAidesbookc8p76.JPG
http://buhlplanetarium.tripod.com/BuhlAidesbookc8p77.JPG
http://buhlplanetarium.tripod.com/BuhlAidesbookc8p78.JPG
http://buhlplanetarium.tripod.com/BuhlAidesbookc8p79.JPG
http://buhlplanetarium.tripod.com/BuhlAidesbookc8p80.JPG

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* Adler Planetarium, Chicago:
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* Astronomer, Educator, Optician John A. Brashear:
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* Andrew Carnegie & Carnegie Libraries: 
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* Civil War Museum of Andrew Carnegie Free Library:
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* Duquesne Incline cable-car railway, Pittsburgh: 
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--- On Mon, 2/6/12, Tabatha Yang <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> From: Tabatha Yang <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Projecting microscope images
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> Date: Monday, February 6, 2012, 2:19 PM
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>   Hello everyone,
> 
> We have a Zeiss Stemi DV4 microscope. We would like to be
> able to 
> project  images onto a screen so that visiting groups,
> classes and even 
> assembly programs can see what is under the microscope. We
> have a 
> projector. We are just lacking the
> the right camera or video camera/laptop configuration. Do
> any of you 
> currently operate this sort of piecemeal  set-up and
> have 
> recommendations? Is it better to go with a microscope
> specific camera or 
> are their great adaptations using regular cameras. There
> will always be 
> someone from the museum operating it, so we don't need to
> worry about 
> visitor use/abuse as much. I know there are complete
> products like 
> scope-on-a-rope, but we want to adapt the materials we
> already have.
> 
> Thanks for any help you can provide.
> -Tabatha
> 
> 
> On 2/3/2012 5:54 PM, Eric Siegel wrote:
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