AO Cruxite Lenses
notes: label: Description
content: Four lenses in a cardboard box with an inscription in the lid that reads “AO CRUXITE ASSURES YOUR PATIENT OF / ABSORBTIVE PROTECTION AGAINST ULTRAVIOLET RAYS.” The American Optical Company filed for a trademark on the term “Cruxite” for ophthalmic lenses in 1919.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Don Elliot Schwartz, M.D.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0978.08
label: accession number
content: 1981.0978
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0978.08
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Lenses, Set of
label: Object Name
content: lenses
label: Other Terms
content: Lenses, Set of; Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/8 in x 8 3/4 in x 3 1/4 in; 3.4925 cm x 22.225 cm x 8.255 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 3/8 in x 3 in x 1 1/4 in; 21.2725 cm x 7.62 cm x 3.175 cm