Binocular Indirect Ophthalmoscope
date: label: associated dates
content: 1912 03 13 / 1912 03 13
notes: label: Description
content: Charles Louis Schepens (1912-2006) was a Belgian ophthalmologist who moved to the United States in 1947 and established the Retina Foundation (now the Schepens Eye Research Foundation) in 1950. This is the prototype indirect ophthalmoscope that Dr. Schepens developed, ca. 1945.
label: Description
content: Ref: “World War II Hero Charles Schepens,” The Washington Post (April 10, 2006), p. B5.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
title: label: Title
content: Ophthalmoscope
topic: label: associated subject
content: Ophthalmology
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dr. Charles Schepens
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1990.0384.01
label: catalog number
content: 1990.0384.01
label: accession number
content: 1990.0384
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Ophthalmoscope
label: Other Terms
content: Ophthalmoscope; Ophthalmoscopy
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, aluminum (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
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content: paint, enamel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: green (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 27 cm x 13.2 cm x 20.6 cm; 10 5/8 in x 5 3/16 in x 8 1/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall, as stored: 7 in x 11 in x 9 in; 17.78 cm x 27.94 cm x 22.86 cm