Talk:Microtome

Need redirect here from "Vibratome" and "Tissue Sectioning System" maybe? (-lionfish)

Mikrotom
The German wiki has an FA on this. I have started on translation. Later I will post a request for a more capable speaker to review my work. Thanks User A1 (talk) 13:30, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
 * OK, I have imported most of it. If someone wants to check the translation, that would be great. I had the most difficulty in the history section, so that is where the mistakes are going to be. Furthermore I have yet to bring the references over, if someone wants to do that sooner than I, that is fine :) User A1 (talk) 09:08, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Oh also Sled vs Sledge microtome? It seems that both are in use in scholarly literature. User A1 (talk) 09:12, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
 * OK, so I imported the refs. Job is pretty much done, but the article needs attention from an expert, as I am neither an expert in the method nor an expert translator. User A1 (talk)

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Compresstome
The section on "compresstome" should maybe be removed. Compresstome seems to be a proprietary name for a model of vibrating microtome, and not really a different "type" of microtome. Does anyone have thoughts on this? Waughd (talk) 22:25, 26 May 2019 (UTC)
 * It doesn't seem that anyone objects to the removal of this section (grounds for doing so are above), so I will remove it. Waughd (talk) 01:08, 2 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Your deletion has been added once again and represents promotional text for a brand of microtome rather than being a specific type of microtome. Unfortunately the company have pursued this on many articles. I have deleted the text once again. 2A0A:EF40:65:3F01:17DA:6A85:4E1E:9C03 (talk) 06:56, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

History
It is suggested that "razor blades" were used prior to the use of mechanical devices. Razor blades suggests the small foil-like rectangular replaceable blades for safety razors, whereas what were actually used were the devices known simply as razors. I recall in school in the 1950's cutting sections by hand by gripping plant material firmly in two semi-circles of hollowed-out pith and repeatedly using a slicing movement across the top with the razor. This would produce sections of various thicknesses, some of which were thin enough for optical microscopy. Incidentally the razors were of a specialist nature having one surface plane and the other bevelled (in contrast to a shaving razor which had two bevelled faces.Tommyboy 18:11, 1 December 2020 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tom Beaton (talk • contribs)