Microscope
date: label: date made
content: ca 1880-1890
name: label: maker
content: Ogden, John T.
notes: label: Description
content: Dissecting microscope with a single lens, square stage, sub-stage mirror, steel pillar, square base made of black iron, arm rests, and wooden case. John J. Bausch obtained a patent on the form in 1880. Bausch & Lomb touted it as “the most compact, portable and efficient Dissecting Microscope on the market." The “OGDEN / BOSTON” inscription on this example refers to a microscopist and instrument dealer, as does the paper label reading “From / JOHN T. OGDEN / 168 Tremont St. / Boston.”
label: Description
content: This may have been used by Richard Rathbun (1852-1918) or by his sister, Mary Jane Rathbun (1860-1940), both of whom worked at the Smithsonian.
label: Description
content: Ref. John J. Bausch, “Microscope,” U.S. Patent 230,688 (Aug. 3, 1880).
label: Description
content: Bausch & Lomb, <i>Price List of Microscopes, Objectives and Accessories</i> (Rochester, N.Y., 1884), pp. 6-7.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Division of Marine Invertebrates, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.163004.01
label: catalog number
content: M-9782
label: catalog number
content: 163004.01
label: accession number
content: 163004
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/4 in x 6 in x 4 3/4 in; 5.715 cm x 15.24 cm x 12.065 cm