Microscope
date: label: date made
content: 1936
notes: label: Description
content: This Bausch & Lomb Model GGBET microscope is a stereoscopic instrument with coarse and fine focus, quadruple nosepiece, square mechanical stage, inclination joint, sub-stage condenser and iris diaphragm, sub-stage mirror, and V-shaped base. The inscription on the eyepiece reads “BAUSCH & LOMB OPTICAL CO. / ROCHESTER, N.Y.” The 251496 serial number indicates a date of around 1936. A tag on the base reads “PROPERTY OF U.S. GOVERNMENT / PHS / 800 / 35990.”
label: Description
content: This was used in the mid-1960s, in the National Institutes of Health Division of Biologics Standards, in connection with the development of a live virus vaccine for rubella (German measles). Dr. Harry M. Meyer, Jr. and Dr. Paul D. Parkman led this project.
label: Description
content: Ref: Bausch & Lomb, <i>Scientific Instruments</i> (Rochester, N.Y., 1939), p. 30.
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: The Antibody Initiative
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Antibody Initiative: Measles, Mumps, and Rubella
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Government Transfer, Department of Health Education and Welfare, The Federal Food and Drug Administration
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1977.0514.01
label: accession number
content: 1977.0514
label: catalog number
content: 1977.0514.01
label: serial number
content: 251496
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope, binocular
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 35.6 cm x 16.1 cm x 19.3 cm; 14 in x 6 5/16 in x 7 5/8 in