Skeel Self-recording Perimeter
name: label: maker
content: E.B. Meyrowitz
notes: label: Description
content: A perimeter is used to measure the field of vision of a human eye. An inscription on this example reads “Skeel / Self Recording Perimeter / E. B. Meyrowitz / New York / Maker.” Emil Bruno Meyrowitz (1852-1937) was an immigrant from Prussia who established an important optical supply house in New York City. Frank D. Skeel (1851-1923) was an ophthalmologist in New York City.
label: Description
content: Ref: Emil B. Meyrowitz and Ferdinand Buchhop, “Perimeter,” U.S. Patent 596,044 (Dec. 21, 1897), assigned to the Meyrowitz Manufacturing Co.
label: Description
content: “Dr. Skeel’s Self-Recording Perimeter,” <i>The International Medical Annual</i> (New York, 1897), p. 635.
label: Description
content: “Emil Meyrowitz, Opticians’ Leader,” <i>New York Times</i> (Dec. 11, 1937), p. 19.
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-07027
label: catalog number
content: M-07027
label: accession number
content: 216897
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Perimeter, Self- Recording
label: Other Terms
content: Perimeter; Perimeter, Self- Recording; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 65.5 cm x 24.5 cm x 51 cm; 25 13/16 in x 9 5/8 in x 20 1/16 in