ABSTRACT
The microscope-centrifuge, recently described by Harvey and Loomis (1930), was devised in collaboration with Mr Alfred L. Loomis and constructed in his private laboratory at Tuxedo Park, N.Y. It is a device by which living cells can be observed while they are being centrifuged at speeds of 1000 to 4000 R.P.M. at a distance of 11 cm. from the centrifuge axis. The instrument is really a special head, containing part of a microscope, built to fit a in. shaft, the size of the type SB International Equipment Company electric centrifuge. The scheme is as follows.
Copyright © 1931 The Company of Biologists Ltd.
1931
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