Microscope
date: label: date made
content: ca 1902
name: label: maker
content: Bausch & Lomb
notes: label: Description
content: This is a Continental model AB of the sort that Bausch & Lomb introduced in the 1890s. It is a compound monocular with micrometer screw for fine focus, square stage, and sub-stage mirror. The inscription on the black horseshoe base reads “BAUSCH & LOMB OPTICAL Co. / ROCHESTER, N.Y. NEW YORK CITY.” The objective is missing. The 37718 serial number indicates a date of 1902.
label: Description
content: Ref: Bausch & Lomb, <i>Microscopes and Accessories</i> (Rochester, N.Y., 1900), pp. 26-27.
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-12203
label: accession number
content: 272522
label: catalog number
content: M-12203
label: catalog number
content: 272522.18
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 1/4 in x 3 3/16 in x 4 5/8 in; 26.035 cm x 8.09625 cm x 11.7475 cm