Eye Testing Chart
date: label: date made
content: ca 1920
name: label: maker
content: F.A. Hardy & Co.
notes: label: Description
content: The Snellen eye testing chart was invented in 1862 by Herman Snellen (1834-1908), a Dutch ophthalmologist.
label: Description
content: Ref: H. Snellen, Probebuchstaben zur Bestimmung der Sehschärfe (Utrecht 1862).
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: Gift of R. N. Taylor, M.D.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1977.1223.195
label: catalog number
content: 1977.1223.195
label: accession number
content: 1977.1223
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Chart, Examining, vision
label: Object Name
content: chart, examining, vision
label: Other Terms
content: Chart, Examining, vision; Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 75.1 cm x 29.5 cm x 1.9 cm; 29 9/16 in x 11 5/8 in x 3/4 in