Description

This microscope has a rectangular base, a camera attachment on lower front, binocular eyepieces, and an additional photography/lighting attachment at top, with a large round black stage with objectives on the bottom. There are paper notes on the objectives on the top front.

In 1985, Nikon introduced the Diaphot Inverted Tissue Culture Microscope, an update to their classic bioscience microscopes, the Biophot and Diaphot TMD. This updated version was designed for photomicrography, and designed to reduce glare and maximize the image contrast for clearer pictures. It was also one of the standard tissue culture microscopes in biology laboratories in the 1980s and 1990s.

This microscope was originally used in Professor Herman N. Eisen’s laboratory at the Center for Cancer Research (now the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research). Following Eisen's death in 2014, his former assistant Carol McKinley used this instrument in her work at the Whitehead Institute.