Binocular Loupe
name: label: maker
content: Hardy, F. A.
notes: label: Description
content: Binocular loupe designed by Eugene Beebe, an oculist and aurist in Milwaukee, and manufactured by the F. A. Hardy & Co. in Chicago. Advertisements boasted that the "Hardy-Beebe" binocular loupe offered “great magnifying power with a large and perfectly flat field.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Eugene W. Beebe, “Spectacles,” U.S. Patent 945,078 (Jan. 10, 1910).
label: Description
content: Eugene W. Beebe, “Binocular-Magnifier,” U.S. Patent 1,086,902 (Feb. 10, 1914).
label: Description
content: F. A. Hardy & Co., Opthalmological Catalogue (Chicago, 1918), p. 56.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Dr. James E. Aiguier
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.260892.015
label: accession number
content: 260892
label: catalog number
content: 260892.015
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Loupe, Binocular
label: Object Name
content: loupe, binocular
label: Other Terms
content: Loupe, Binocular; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 5/8 in x 5 in x 3 7/8 in; 6.6675 cm x 12.7 cm x 9.8425 cm