
Thomas Moore
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Samuel Highley (1826-1900) is known to have produced scientific instruments on Fleet Street from the early 1850's until 1870. Highley was celebrated for producing simplified yet effective microscope models for Hospital and Student use. In 1862 Highley exhibited at the London International Exhibition, advertising his 'Educational microscope and philosophical instruments'.
For a comparable example in the Royal Microscopical Society Collection, G.L'E Turner, The Great Age of the Microscope, 1989, p. 97, No. 83.