Schematic Eye
date: label: Date made
content: ca. 1900
label: date made
content: ca 1920
name: label: maker
content: W & T Avery Ltd.
notes: label: Description
content: The “SCHEMATIC EYE / DESIGNED BY / W. A. FISHER, M.D.” label on the base of this item refers to William A. Fisher (1860-1944), Professor of Ophthalmology and President of the Chicago Eye, Ear and Throat College. The eye was introduced in 1907.
label: Description
content: Ref: “New Instruments: Fisher’s Schematic Eye,” American Medicine 13 (1907): 451.
label: Description
content: “Dr. William A. Fisher, Founder of Chicago Eye College, Practiced in Loop 50 Years,” New York Times (Aug. 22, 1944), p. 15.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1993.0464.04.1
label: catalog number
content: 1993.0464.04.01
label: accession number
content: 1993.0464
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Schematic Eye
label: Object Name
content: eye, schematic
label: Other Terms
content: Schematic Eye; Teaching Materials
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 14.5 cm x 5.7 cm x 6.4 cm; 5 11/16 in x 2 1/4 in x 2 1/2 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/8 in x 3 in x 2 1/2 in; 13.0175 cm x 7.62 cm x 6.35 cm