Dissecting Microscope
name: label: maker
content: Bausch & Lomb
notes: label: Description
content: Dissecting microscope with a nickel-plated tube, two lenses, square glass stage, sub-stage mirror, black horseshoe base, and wooden case. The inscription reads “Bausch & Lomb Optical Co.” and the 61518 serial number suggests a date of around 1906. According to trade literature, the form (Stand Y) was the largest and most complete of the Bausch & Lomb dissecting microscopes, and was first constructed according to the specifications of Paul Meyer, a German scientist who was a leader of the Naples Zoological Station in the last quarter of the nineteenth century.
label: Description
content: Ref: Bausch & Lomb, <i>Microscopes and Accessories</i> (Rochester, 1908), pp. 53-54.
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: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.211531.18
label: catalog number
content: M-09789
label: accession number
content: 211531
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: case: 7 7/8 in x 7 1/4 in x 6 3/8 in; 20.0025 cm x 18.415 cm x 16.1925 cm
label: Measurements
content: microscope: 6 1/2 in x 3 11/16 in x 5 5/16 in; 16.51 cm x 9.36625 cm x 13.49375 cm