Microscope
date: label: date made
content: ca 1890
name: label: maker
content: Bausch & Lomb
notes: label: Description
content: In the late nineteenth century, Bausch & Lomb began making Continental stands like those to be had from such Europeans firms as Hartnack, Zeiss and Leitz. These featured a horseshoe base and a relatively short optical tube. This example, which is of that sort, is a compound monocular with coarse and fine focus, double nosepiece (missing one objective), square stage, inclination joint, and sub-stage mirror. An inscription on the nosepiece reads “BAUSCH & LOMB OPT. CO. / ROCHESTER, N.Y.” A brass tag on the base reads “T - / 8832.” It dates from around 1890, and may have been an experimental model.
label: Description
content: Ref: Henry Bausch, “New American Microscopes, Made by Bausch & Lomb Optical Co., Rochester, N.Y.,” <i>Proceedings of the American Society of Microscopists</i> 13 (1891): 116-119.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
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-12205
label: accession number
content: 272522
label: catalog number
content: M-12205
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (tube material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (base material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (lenses material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 35.2 cm x 9.5 cm x 13.5 cm; 13 7/8 in x 3 3/4 in x 5 5/16 in