microscope
date: label: date made
content: 1916
name: label: maker
content: Bausch & Lomb
notes: label: Description
content: This is a compound monocular with coarse and fine focus, triple nosepiece, square stage, inclination joint, sub-stage diaphragm, sub-stage mirror, horseshoe base, and wooden case. An inscription on the tube reads “BAUSCH & LOMB OPTICAL CO. / ROCHESTER, N.Y. U.S.A.” Another reads “Pat. Jan. 5, 1915.” The 111688 serial number indicates a date of 1916. This belonged to Herbert E. Ives (1882-1953), an American scientist and engineer who, like his father, Frederick Eugene Ives, specialized in optics and photography.
label: Description
content: Ref: William L. Patterson, “Fine Adjustment for Microscopes,” U.S. Patent 1,115,011 (Jan. 5, 1915), assigned to Bausch & Lomb.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Rochester
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mrs. H. E. Ives
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PG.7237
label: accession number
content: 251656
label: catalog number
content: 7237
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Microscope
label: Other Terms
content: Microscope; Still