Prism Binoculars
date: label: date made
content: ca 1940
name: label: maker
content: Bausch & Lomb
notes: label: Description
content: This is an aluminum instrument with black finish. The barrels are covered with black leather. The objective lenses are 30 mm diameter. The eye end of the left prism housing is marked “MILITARY STEREO / 6 X 30” and “5409-1942.” That on the right is marked “BAUSCH & LOMB OPTICAL CO. / ROCHESTER, N.Y. U.S.A.” and “DALE BROWN.” Each eyepiece can be focused, and each has a diopter scale. The case is brown leather. A tag in the accession file indicates that this instrument was in the U.S. Naval Observatory repair shop in 1944.
label: Description
content: Dale Brown (1893-1960) served with the 145th Infantry, U.S. Army, during World War I, and received a Croix de Guerre from the French government.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Rochester
topic: label: Subject
content: World War II
label: related event
content: World War II
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Optics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Sally Ann Brown, in memory of Capt. Dale Brown
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0879.01
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0879.01
label: accession number
content: 1980.0879
objectType: label: Object Name
content: binoculars
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: closed: 2 7/16 in x 6 1/2 in x 4 3/32 in; 6.1976 cm x 16.51 cm x 10.3886 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in case: 5 3/16 in x 7 in x 3 3/16 in; 13.17625 cm x 17.78 cm x 8.09625 cm