Microscope
date: label: date made
content: ca 1901
name: label: maker
content: Bausch & Lomb
notes: label: Description
content: This Continental model BB is a compound monocular with coarse and fine focus, triple nosepiece, inclination joint, square stage covered with vulcanite, sub-stage apparatus with condenser and iris diaphragm, adjustable bar for sub-stage mirror (mirror is missing), and “Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. / NEW YORK ROCHESTER, N.Y. CHICAGO” inscription on the horseshoe base. Bausch & Lomb boasted in 1900 that “Fully one-half of all microscopes sold by us are BB’s” and the “very best laboratories are equipped with them.” The 33851 serial number here indicates a date of 1901.
label: Description
content: Ref: Bausch & Lomb, <i>Microscopes and Accessories</i> (Rochester, N.Y., 1900), pp. 34-35.
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-12206
label: accession number
content: 272522
label: catalog number
content: M-12206
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: 37 cm x 10.6 cm x 14.5 cm; 14 9/16 in x 4 3/16 in x 5 11/16 in