Trieder Binoculars
notes: label: Description
content: This is a 7 power instrument. The eye end of the left prism housing is marked “TRIEDER BINOCLE / Armee Mod. Pat.” That on the right is marked “C. P. / GOERZ / BERLIN.” There is a center focus, and the end of the central axis is marked “7x.”
label: Description
content: Carl Paul Goerz began in business in Berlin in 1886, and formed the Opticsche Anstalt C.P. Goerz (C.P. Goerz Optical Institute) in 1890. The firm began making Galilean binoculars in 1891 and prism binoculars in 1896. They boasted that their Triëder binoculars were as “small as an opera glass” and “more powerful than the largest field glass.”
label: Description
content: Ref: C. P. Goerz, <i>Triëder-Binocles</i> (Berlin, 1906).
label: Description
content: These binoculars were used by General Peyton C. March, who served as the Army Chief of Staff 1918-1921.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Military
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content: Military
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content: Optics
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AF.59703M
label: catalog number
content: 59703M
label: accession number
content: 216653
objectType: label: Object Name
content: prism binoculars
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 in x 5 in x 3 in; 15.24 cm x 12.7 cm x 7.62 cm