Opthalmoscope
date: label: date made
content: 1904
name: label: maker
content: DeZeng Standard Co.
notes: label: Description
content: One inscription on this ophthalmoscope reads “PATENTED / JAN. 19, ’04.” Another reads “DE ZENG STANDARD CO. / MAKERS. CAMDEN, N.J.” Henry Lawrence DeZeng (1866-1929) invented several ophthalmological and otolaryngological instruments, and established the De Zeng Standard Co. in 1906. The referenced patent described a “novel means for securing or holding the lenses.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Henry L. De Zeng and Philip S. Reid, “Ophthalmoscope,” U.S. Patent 750,099 (Jan. 19, 1904).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Camden
topic: label: associated subject
content: Ophthalmology
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.0235.002
label: accession number
content: 1978.0235
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0235.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: ophthalmoscopes
label: Object Name
content: ophthalmoscope
label: Other Terms
content: Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: felt (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 4 3/8 in x 2 1/2 in; 2.54 cm x 11.1125 cm x 6.35 cm