Microscope
date: label: date made
content: 1868
name: label: maker
content: Bausch & Lomb
notes: label: Description
content: Edward Bausch, a son of one of the founders of Bausch & Lomb, made this microscope in 1868 when he was but 14 years old. It is a compound monocular with inclination joint, sub-stage mirror, and Y-shaped base; the original square stage has been broken off.
label: Description
content: Ref: Donald L. Padgitt, <i>A Short History of the Early American Microscopes</i> (London, 1975), pp. 88-89.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Rochester
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Microscopes
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bausch & Lomb Optical Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-12188
label: accession number
content: 272522
label: catalog number
content: M-12188
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 in x 3 1/2 in x 3 in; 20.32 cm x 8.89 cm x 7.62 cm