Microscope
date: label: date made
content: ca 1912
name: label: maker
content: Bausch & Lomb
notes: label: Description
content: Bausch & Lomb Model BH8 compound monocular with coarse and fine adjustment, triple nosepiece, square stage with mechanism for moving the specimen, inclination joint, sub-stage condenser, sub-stage mirror, U-shaped base, and wooden box. The inscriptions on the base read “BAUSCH & LOMB OPTICAL CO. / ROCHESTER, N.Y. 30441” and “BLS.” The inscription on the stage reads “BAUSCH & LOMB OPTICAL CO. / Rochester, N.Y. / Patented Aug. 24, ’97.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Ref: Edward Bausch, “Microscope Attachment,” U.S. Patent 588,689 (Aug. 24, 1897).
label: Description
content: Bausch & Lomb, <i>Microscopes and Accessories</i> (Rochester, N.Y., 1914), pp. 32-33.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Rochester
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: Cancer
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Cancer: Diagnosis
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Roy Edward Clark, Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.315329.01
label: catalog number
content: 315329.01
label: accession number
content: 315329
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (case material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (microscope material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (microscope material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (microscope material)
label: Measurements
content: microscope: 34.8 cm x 10.3 cm x 14.5 cm; 13 11/16 in x 4 1/16 in x 5 11/16 in
label: Measurements
content: case: 38 cm x 18.1 cm x 21.2 cm; 14 15/16 in x 7 1/8 in x 8 3/8 in