Microscope
date: label: date made
content: 1902-1926
name: label: maker
content: Gundlach, Ernst
notes: label: Description
content: Compound monocular microscope with a push-pull focus, square stage, sub-stage mirror, circular base, and a “GUNDLACH MANHATTAN OPTICAL CO.” inscription. That firm was formed in 1902 when the Gundlach Optical Company of Rochester, N.Y., acquired the Manhattan Optical Company of Cresskill, N.J., and it remained in business as such until 1926.
label: Description
content: Ernst Gundlach (1834-1908) was a German optician and mechanic who arrived in the United States in 1872, became superintendent of the newly established microscope department of Bausch & Lomb in 1876, established the Gundlach Optical Company in 1878, and returned to Germany in 1900.
label: Description
content: Ref: D. J. Warner, “Ernst W. Gundlach. German-American Optician,” <i>Rittenhouse</i> 10 (1995): 1-18.
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: Mrs. C.B. Schmeltzer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.317925.05
label: catalog number
content: 317925.05
label: accession number
content: 317925
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: case: 3 5/8 in x 10 5/8 in x 4 5/16 in; 9.2075 cm x 26.9875 cm x 10.95375 cm
label: Measurements
content: microscope: 8 1/4 in x 3 1/4 in x 2 3/4 in; 20.955 cm x 8.255 cm x 6.985 cm