Punctumeter
name: label: maker
content: F. A. Hardy & Co.
notes: label: Description
content: A punctumeter measures the range of accommodation of an eye. J. G. Huizinga, a professor of ophthalmology in Chicago, described the form in 1902. The “F. A. HARDY & CO. / OPTICIANS” inscription on this example refers to an optical supply house in Chicago that was opened in 1884, and later merged with the American Optical Co.
label: Description
content: Ref: J. G. Huizinga, “The Punctumeter, for Measuring the Range of Accomodation,” <i>Journal of the American Medical Association</i> 38 (1902): 1095.
label: Description
content: J. A. Hardy & Co., <i>Catalogue of Ophthalmological Instruments and Equipment</i> (Chicago, 1918), p. 44.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dr. J. Staiman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-07035
label: catalog number
content: M-07035
label: accession number
content: 216897
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Apparatus, Testing, Eye
label: Object Name
content: punctumeter
label: Other Terms
content: Apparatus, Testing, Eye; Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall5.5: 5 1/2 in x 15 in x 7 1/2 in; 13.97 cm x 38.1 cm x 19.05 cm