| Natural History Museum Pocket Microscope |  | Brand: TKC
Category: Toy
List Price: £8.99
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Rating:  29 reviews
Sales Rank: 93
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 4.9 x 4.8 x 2.1
MPN: NHM-1005
EAN: 5060096381235
ASIN: B0015X4Y5S
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| Features:
| • | Trust the Natural History Museum to devise the most efficient, most want-able pocket microscope. | | • | For all that it measures just 5.1 x 4.1 x 2.8cm, | | • | Its got 20x 40x zoom magnification with touch-button ultra-bright LED illuminator. | | • | Adjust focus wheel for stunning clarity and inspect flakes of skin and the like in incredible detail. | | • | Comes with slides, cover slips and lens cloth |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
View small objects in detail with a brightness and clarity that impressed even Natural History Museum scientists!
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| Customer Reviews:
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Brilliant! Great quality at a great price. August 9, 2008
The Wife (UK)
44 out of 45 found this review helpful
Bought this for the kids. Didn't expect much for under £10. However, I was amazed. Truly pocket sized and such lovely quality. Kids have loved finding stuff to put on the slides. Live mosquito larvae (from the water butt) especially good. Could spend hours using it. Lighting is even good enough to get some reasonable photographs via my digital camera. Love it. Will be buying more for presents.
Amazing value November 9, 2008
Miss F (London, England)
35 out of 36 found this review helpful
When looking for a microscope for 2 children (age 5-6) I found it hard to get reliable advice, and read a lot of bad reviews for much higher priced childrens products. I bought this one on a whim after seeing 1 good review and found that this microscope is amazing value. It produces clear, bright images, and is a perfect first microscope for young children. It has slides which they can learn to mount, and it can also be taken out of its holder and placed over any object that you want to view. The magnification is just right for young ones to be able to relate the magnified image to the object itself. At both 20x and 40x magnification onion skin cells are clearly visible and I will try to upload a picture I took through the microscope of unstained red onion skin. I highly recommend this microscope, it is amazing value for money and a perfect introductory microscope.
Not just a toy February 2, 2010
Stench
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
This is a superb microscope considering it's under £10. Unbelievable really.
I use it to examine the scratch patterns on blades and it is perfect for the job. I used to work in a cytology lab, so I have some experience with optics and for this price the pocket microscope is incredible. Don't be fooled by toy microscopes claiming to have 1000x magnification - you can't achieve that without expensive optics and the specimen has to be properly prepared in order to view it at that magnification. The 1000x toy microscopes just give you a faint blob of light with some vague fuzz where the specimen is supposed to be. Their objective lenses are tiny and they have very low light-gathering capability.
The 40x magnification on the pocket microscope is a real 40x with a bright, crisp image. The Natural History Museum did the right thing - they went for high quality optics at lower magnification.
It's a great educational toy, for sure (try examining a bank note with it), but it's also completely fit for purpose for anywhere where you need good magnification. Worth having around even if you don't have kids.
At this price, you simply can't go wrong. For once you will get more than what you paid for.
Size isn't everything January 16, 2010
HollowSpy (Somewhere in the UK)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
The reviews and cost made this an instant purchase for my 6-year-old's stocking. When I recieved it I was surprised at how small it was, and initially thought "Oh dear". However, when it was opened and used on Christmas Day I was extremely impressed with the quality of the view and ease of use. What a superb product!! For the price, it is out of this world. We have since spent a lot of time hunting for all sorts of things in the house to look at and she has been very engaged. It seems pretty durable too with simple, non-fiddly controls.
As a primary teacher who is used to using a variety of equipment in science lessons - this is terrific value for money and high quality that results in great learning potential. Low energy LED too - great for battery life. Considering getting a bunch for the classroom now.
If you are after a microscope to get started GET THIS PRODUCT, IT IS EXCELLENT.
Discover the microscopic world for under a tenner March 30, 2010
Yersinia pestis (London)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This pocket microscope is pretty neat. It features a single-turret 20x-40x zoom construction with a focusing wheel, and is very straightforward to use.
While it doesn't have the power of a full-featured microscope, you can plonk it on just about any surface you'd like to investigate.
That opens up a whole world of possibilities that won't fit on a normal microscope stage. It also has a removable base with a slide holder for conventional use, and a built-in battery-operated light.
You could easily take it on field trips for a first look at your samples. It's robust, light, simple and pocket-sized.
A great gadget for big kids and little 'uns.
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