Ophthalmoscope
name: label: maker
content: Welch Allyn, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: Francis A. Welch (d. 1915) was a New York physician who designed a hand-held, direct illuminating ophthalmoscope, and partnered with William Noah Allyn to make and market it. The new firm, known as Welch Allyn, was located in Auburn, N.Y.; it moved to Skaneateles in 1953.
label: Description
content: Ref: Francis A. Welch, “Ophthalmoscope,” U.S. Patent 1,166,287 (Dec. 28, 1915).
label: Description
content: William G. Allyn, <i>Welch Allyn: An American Success Story</i> (1996).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: associated subject
content: Ophthalmology
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mrs. Marion Lund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1983.0742.03
label: accession number
content: 1983.0742
label: catalog number
content: 1983.0742.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: ophthalmoscope
label: Object Name
content: plug
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: plug: 2 1/2 in x 4 1/2 in x 1 3/4 in; 6.35 cm x 11.43 cm x 4.445 cm
label: Measurements
content: scope: 67 3/4 in x 1 1/2 in x 3/4 in; 172.085 cm x 3.81 cm x 1.905 cm