Ophthalmetrope
name: label: used at
content: Skidmore College
label: maker
content: C. H. Stoelting Company
label: maker
content: Max Kohl
notes: label: Description
content: An ophthalmetrope is a mechanical model of an eye (or eyes). This example is based on the design of Jacob Hermann Knapp (1832-1911), a German ophthalmologist who moved to the United States in 1868 and settled in New York City.
label: Description
content: Ref: Max Kohl, Physical Apparatus 50 (Chemnitz), pp. 522-523.
label: Description
content: A. S. Aloe Co., Aloe’s Illustrated and Priced Catalogue of Superior Surgical Instruments, Physicians’ Supplies and Hospital Furnishings (St. Louis, [1903]), p. 170.
label: Description
content: Ref: C. H. Stoelting Co., Psychological and Physiological Apparatus and Supplies (Chicago, 1930), pp. 194-195.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
label: place made
content: Germany: Saxony, Chemnitz
topic: label: associated subject
content: Ophthalmology
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Psychology Department of Skidmore College
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.311423.14
label: catalog number
content: 311423.14
label: accession number
content: 311423
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Apparatus, Movement, Eye
label: Object Name
content: physiological model
label: Other Terms
content: Apparatus, Movement, Eye; Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in x 11 in x 10 in; 25.4 cm x 27.94 cm x 25.4 cm