Microscope
date: label: date made
content: 1895-1898
name: label: maker
content: Bausch & Lomb Optical Company
notes: label: Description
content: Bausch & Lomb introduced their Small Continental in 1891. This example is a New Continental BB of the sort introduced three years later. It is a compound monocular with coarse and fine focus, double nosepiece (one is missing), inclination joint, large rectangular stage with vulcanite top, sub-stage iris diaphragm, sub-stage two-sided mirror, and large horseshoe base. The inscription on the base reads “Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. / ROCHESTER, N.Y. & NEW YORK CITY.” The 16666 serial number, on a circular tag on the back of the base, indicates a date of 1894.
label: Description
content: Ref: Henry Bausch, “New American Microscopes, made by Bausch & Lomb Optical Co., Rochester, N.Y.,” <i>Proceedings of the American Society of Microscopists</i> 13 (1891): 116-119.
label: Description
content: “A New Continental Microscope,” <i>Proceedings of the American Society of Microscopists</i> 15 (Oct. 1894): 12-14.
label: Description
content: Bausch & Lomb, <i>Microscopes and Accessories</i> (Rochester and New York, 1895), pp. 4-5.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Rochester
label: associated place
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-12201
label: accession number
content: 272522
label: catalog number
content: M-12201
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
label: Other Terms
content: microscope; Monocular; Compound
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: lead (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 32.9 cm x 10.2 cm x 16 cm; 12 15/16 in x 4 1/32 in x 6 5/16 in