Microscope
date: label: date made
content: 1870s
name: label: maker
content: Bausch & Lomb
notes: label: Description
content: The Excelsior Pocket and Dissecting Microscope is a simple and inexpensive instrument that fits into and pops out of a small wooden box. It was designed by John J. Bausch, produced by Bausch & Lomb, and widely distributed in the 1870s.
label: Description
content: Ref: John J. Bausch, “Microscope,” U.S. Patent 151,746 (June 9, 1874).
label: Description
content: <i>The Excelsior Pocket and Dissecting Microscope: Intended for the Use of Students, Physicians, Naturalists, Miners, Families, etc., with Description of Its Construction and Method of Using It</i> (Rochester, 187?).
label: Description
content: James W. Queen & Co., <i>Priced and Illustrated Catalogue of Optical Instruments</i> (Philadelphia, 1874), pp. 40-41.
label: Description
content: Bausch & Lomb, <i>Price List of Microscopes</i> (New York, 1877), n.p.
label: Description
content: John Phin, <i>Practical Hints on the Selection and Use of the Microscope</i> (New York, 1877), pp. 27-30.
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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Miss Charlotte B. Ward
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.174919.19
label: catalog number
content: M-9734
label: catalog number
content: 174919.19
label: accession number
content: 174919
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 7/8 in x 1 1/2 in x 3 1/8 in; 2.2225 cm x 3.81 cm x 7.9375 cm