Jaeger's Test Types
notes: label: Description
content: The Jaeger chart was designed to test near vision acuity. Eduard Jaeger von Jaxtthal (1818–1884) was an Austrian ophthalmologist and a professor at the University of Vienna who, in the 1850s, made improvements to eye test charts.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Miss E. P. Custis
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-06952.01
label: catalog number
content: M-06952.01
label: accession number
content: 214851
label: catalog number
content: 214851.67
label: catalog number
content: 214851.68
label: catalog number
content: 214851.69
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Chart, Testing, Eye
label: Object Name
content: eye chart, testing
label: Other Terms
content: Chart, Testing, Eye; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/2 in x 7 1/4 in; 11.43 cm x 18.415 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 in x 4 1/4 in; 17.78 cm x 10.795 cm