The museum of Jurassic technology, in LA, has a collection of these objects, amongst many other wonderful things. If you’re in LA and are a science/history/sociology/museum nerd in any proportions, you have to check out that place. By far my favorite venue I have ever visited in LA.
Damn! Used to live there and never heard about this! Perhaps one day I will return. My preferred hangouts were Getty (great exhibitions and famous for its archival experts) and LACMA (huge and IMHO extremely under-acknowledged globally).
Just a tidbit, Joeseph Jackson Lister, father of Joeseph Lister (who invented and promulgated antiseptic surgery) was admitted to the Royal Society for his invention of the achromatic microscope lens. In turn, that accurate view of the microscopic world was instrumental (no pun) in Lister’s breakthroughs in antiseptic surgery.
