Ophthalmoscope
date: label: date made
content: 1904
name: label: maker
content: DeZeng Standard Co.
notes: label: Description
content: One inscription on this ophthalmoscope reads “PATENTED / JAN. 19, ’04.” Another reads “DE ZENG STANDARD CO. / MAKERS. CAMDEN, N.J.” Henry Lawrence DeZeng (1866-1929) was a graduate of Hobart College who invented several ophthalmological and otolaryngological instruments. He established the De Zeng Standard Co. in 1906. The referenced patent described a “novel means for securing or holding the lenses.” An inscription on the case reads “Loring’s Ophthalmoscope.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Henry L. De Zeng and Philip S. Reid, “Ophthalmoscope,” U.S. Patent 750,099 (Jan. 19, 1904).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Camden
topic: label: associated subject
content: Ophthalmology
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.0235.003
label: accession number
content: 1978.0235
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0235.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: ophthalmoscope
label: Object Name
content: ophthalmoscopes
label: Other Terms
content: Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: case: 3 7/8 in x 2 1/4 in x 3/4 in; 9.8425 cm x 5.715 cm x 1.905 cm
label: Measurements
content: scope: 6 5/8 in x 1 5/8 in x 1/4 in; 16.8275 cm x 4.1275 cm x .635 cm