Prisoptometer
name: label: maker
content: Geneva Optical Company
notes: label: Description
content: Howard Culbertson (1828-1890), a physician in Zanesville, Ohio, designed this device to measure refraction in order to diagnose anomalies in a patient's vision. The inscription reads “DR. CULBERTSON’S PRISOPTOMETER / GENEVA OPTICAL CO. MAKERS, GENEVA, N.Y. / PATENTED SEPT. 21, 1886.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Howard Culbertson, “Optometer,” U.S. Patent 349,385 (Sept. 21, 1886), assigned to Geneva Optical Co.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Geneva
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Eleanor P. Custis
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-07868
label: accession number
content: 223292
label: catalog number
content: M-07868
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Prisoptometer
label: Other Terms
content: Prisoptometer; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 22 1/2 in x 8 1/2 in x 3 3/4 in; 57.15 cm x 21.59 cm x 9.525 cm