Microscope
date: label: date made
content: ca 1927
name: label: maker
content: Bausch & Lomb
notes: label: Description
content: Barbara McClintock (1902-1992), the cytogeneticist who won the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, used this wide field binocular to examine the morphological mutations in kernels of corn. It is a model AKW with drum nosepiece, rack-and-pinion, and square glass stage. The inscriptions read “BAUSCH / & LOMB/ OPT. CO.” and “PAT. 1,622,350.”
label: Description
content: Ref: John C. Sabel, “Binocular Microscope,” U.S. Patent 1,622,350 (March 29, 1927).
label: Description
content: Bausch & Lomb, <i>Scientific Instruments</i> (Rochester, N.Y., 1939), pp. 57-58.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Rochester
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
label: Subject
content: Philanthropy
label: Subject
content: Women
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content: Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
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content: Microscopes
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Peter M. McKinley
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1993.0074.01.1
label: accession number
content: 1993.0074
label: catalog number
content: 1993.0074.01.1
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope