Prisoptometer
name: label: maker
content: Standard Optical Company Makers
notes: label: Description
content: Howard Culbertson (1828-1890), a physician in Zanesville, Ohio, designed an instrument for measuring refraction in order to diagnose vision anomalies. The inscription on this example reads “DR. CULBERTSON’S PRISOPTOMETER / STANDARD OPTICAL CO. MAKERS / PATENTED SEPT. 21, 1886.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Howard Culbertson, “Optometer,” U.S. Patent 349,385 (Sept. 21, 1886), assigned to Geneva Optical Co.
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.312673.01
label: catalog number
content: 312673.01
label: accession number
content: 312673
objectType: label: Object Name
content: prisoptometer