Optometer
date: label: date made
content: ca 1920
notes: label: Description
content: Instrument with an “OPTOMETER / WM. F. REIMOLD MAKER / PHILA” inscription. William F. Reimold (b. 1861), an optical instrument maker in Philadelphia, patented the form.
label: Description
content: Ref: William F. Reimold, “Opthalmometer or Other Tables,” U.S. Patent 744,613 (Nov. 17, 1903).
label: Description
content: Ad for The Reimold Optometer in <i>The Ophthalmic Record</i> 12 (1903).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
label: Associated Place
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Don Elliot Schwartz, M.D.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0978.15
label: accession number
content: 1981.0978
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0978.15
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Optometer
label: Object Name
content: phoropter
label: Other Terms
content: Optometer; Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 in x 7 1/4 in x 9 1/2 in x 5 in; 10.16 cm x 18.415 cm x 24.13 cm x 12.7 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 in x 7 1/4 in x 9 1/2 in; 10.16 cm x 18.415 cm x 24.13 cm