Standard Prisoptometer
date: label: patent date
content: 1904-06-21
name: label: maker
content: Standard Optical Company Makers
notes: label: Description
content: This is an improved version of the prisoptometer patented in 1886 by Howard Culbertson (1828-1890), a physician in Zanesville, Ohio. The inscription reads “THE STANDARD PRISOPTOMETER / STANDARD OPTICAL COMPANY MAKERS, GENEVA, N.Y. PATENTED JUNE 21, 1904.”
label: Description
content: William Smith (1818-1912) was an immigrant from England who established a thriving nursery business in Geneva, N.Y. In the 1880s he established the Standard Optical Co., also in Geneva, to manufacture spectacles, eyeglasses, goggles, and other such things. Standard Optical worked closely with the Geneva Optical Co.
label: Description
content: Ref: Ad for “The Improved Standard Prisoptometer,” in <i>The Optical Instrument Monthly</i> 1 (Sept. 1905).
label: Description
content: Howard Culbertson, “Optometer,” U.S. Patent 349,385 (Sept. 21, 1886), assigned to Geneva Optical Co.
label: Description
content: H. Culbertson, “An Alleged Defect of the Prisoptometer,” <i>American Journal of Ophthalmology</i> (Nov. 1888): 1-6.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Geneva
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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.M-11618
label: catalog number
content: M-11618
label: accession number
content: 267868
objectType: label: Object Name
content: standard prisoptometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 57 cm x 21.5 cm x 8 cm x 21.5 cm; 22 7/16 in x 8 7/16 in x 3 1/8 in x 8 7/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 22 in x 8 1/2 in x 3 in; 55.88 cm x 21.59 cm x 7.62 cm