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Aus Gretchen L. Humason:ANIMAL TISSUE TECHNIQUES, W. H. FREEMAN AND COMPANY 1962, Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 61-17383, PART I. BASIC PROCEDURES, Chapter 4. Microtomes and Microtome Knives Seite 43:

The first instrument for cutting sections was made by Cummings in 1770. It was a hand model that held the specimen in a cylinder and raised it for sectioning with a screw. In 1835, Pritchard adapted the instrument to a table model by fastening it to a table with a clamp and cutting across the section with a two-handled knife. These instruments were called cutting machines until Chevalier introduced the name microtome in 1839. Sliding cutting machines were developed in 1798, rotary microtomes in 1883 and 1886, and the Spencer Lens Company manufactured the first clinical microtome in 1901. The large Spencer Rotary with increased precision became available in 1910. [Richards, 1949.)

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