Oculometroscope
name: label: maker
content: Meriden Optical Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: An oculometroscope places different lenses in front of a patient’s eyes, to determine which ones work best. This example was made by the Meriden Optical Manufacturing Company, a firm in Meriden, Ct. that was established to manufacture this type of instrument.
label: Description
content: Ref: Harry I. Cowan and Bernard Abel, “Oculometroscope,” U.S. Patent 817,046 (April 3, 1906).
label: Description
content: Andrew Jay Cross, <i>Dynamic Skiametry in Theory and Practice</i> (New York, 1911), p. 162.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: associated subject
content: Ophthalmology
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dr. J. Staiman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-07028
label: catalog number
content: M-07028
label: accession number
content: 216897
objectType: label: Object Name
content: oculometroscope
label: Object Name
content: ophthalmometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 20 in x 21 1/2 in x 18 1/2 in; 50.8 cm x 54.61 cm x 46.99 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: p7082: 35 in x 48 in x 42 in; 88.9 cm x 121.92 cm x 106.68 cm