Microscope
date: label: date made
content: ca 1907-1915
name: label: maker
content: Bausch & Lomb Optical Company
notes: label: Description
content: This portable microscope model BPP is a compound monocular with rack-and-pinion, square stage, inclination joint, sub-stage condenser and diaphragm, bar for sub-stage mirror, and collapsible V-shaped base. The mirror and lenses are missing from this example. The inscription reads “BAUSCH & LOMB OPTICAL CO. / Rochester, N.Y. / B L / Z S/ 89205.” Bausch & Lomb boasted that “For physicians, veterinarians, agriculturists and others who desire a microscope for use in the field, there is none superior. The U.S. Government has put it in use after severe competitive trials.”
label: Description
content: The “B L Z S” inscription refers to the 1907-1915 association of the Bausch & Lomb Optical Co., the Carl Zeiss Optical Works, and George N. Saegmuller.
label: Description
content: Ref: Bausch & Lomb, <i>Microscopes and Accessories</i> (Rochester, N.Y., 1907), pp. 30-31.
label: Description
content: Bausch & Lomb, <i>A Triple Alliance in Optics</i> (Rochester, 1908
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Rochester
label: associated place
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: Bausch & Lomb Optical Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-12209
label: accession number
content: 272522
label: catalog number
content: M-12209
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
label: Other Terms
content: microscope; Monocular; Compound
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: tan (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 28 cm x 11.8 cm x 15.7 cm; 11 1/32 in x 4 21/32 in x 6 3/16 in