Microscope
date: label: date made
content: ca 1879
notes: label: Description
content: Bausch & Lomb introduced their Physician’s microscope in 1877, boasting that it was “firm and well balanced” and well adapted “to the use of physicians and students.” The stand and wooden case cost $40; with two objectives and camera lucida it cost $65. Ernst Gundlach, the Prussian immigrant who had become superintendent of the firm’s new microscope department in 1876, was largely responsible for the form.
label: Description
content: This example is a compound monocular with coarse and fine focus, rectangular stage, inclination joint, sub-stage aperture ring with three holes, two-sided sub-stage mirror, curvaceous base, and wooden box with three objectives in brass cases. The body and tube are nickel-plated brass; the base is black iron; the stage is heavy glass. The inscription on the tube reads “BAUSCH & LOMB OPTICAL CO. ROCHESTER, N.Y.” That on the connection between tube and pillar reads “Pat. Oct. 3. 1876.” That on the metal slide holder reads “PAT. DEC. 25 ’77.” The 1014 serial number on the card in the box suggests a date around 1879.
label: Description
content: Ref: Bausch & Lomb, <i>Price List of Microscopes </i> (Rochester, 1877), p. 6.
label: Description
content: “New Physician’s Microscope,” <i>American Naturalist</i> 11 (1877): 572.
label: Description
content: Ernst Gundlach, “Microscopes,” U.S. Patent 182,919 (Oct. 3, 1876).
label: Description
content: Ernst Gundlach, “Moveable Slide Holder,” U.S. Patent 198,607 (Dec. 25, 1877).
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
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content: Microscopes
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content: Science & Mathematics
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1983.0826.01
label: catalog number
content: 1983.0826.01
label: accession number
content: 1983.0826
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (case material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (microscope material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (microscope material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (microscope material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (case material)
label: Measurements
content: microscope: 28.9 cm x 15 cm x 15 cm; 11 3/8 in x 5 7/8 in x 5 7/8 in
label: Measurements
content: case: 30.7 cm x 17.7 cm x 17.1 cm; 12 1/16 in x 6 15/16 in x 6 3/4 in