Microscope
date: label: date made
content: ca 1904
name: label: maker
content: Bausch & Lomb
notes: label: Description
content: This Bausch & Lomb model LC is a compound monocular designed for petrographic work. It has coarse and fine focus, inclination joint with locking handle of celluloid, triple nosepiece (one missing in this example), large circular stage with vulcanite top, adjustable mirror bar, and Nicol prisms for polarizer and analyzer. The inscription on the black horseshoe base reads “Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. / ROCHESTER, N.Y.” The 47930 serial number on the back of the base suggests a date around 1904.
label: Description
content: Ref: Bausch & Lomb, <i>Microscopes and Accessory Apparatus</i> (Rochester, N.Y., 1904), pp. 42-43.
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-12207
label: accession number
content: 272522
label: catalog number
content: M-12207
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 39.4 cm x 10.6 cm x 17 cm; 15 1/2 in x 4 3/16 in x 6 11/16 in