Ophthalmosope
name: label: maker
content: Shepard & Dudley
notes: label: Description
content: Hermann Knapp (1832-1911) earned a medical degree at the University of Giessen, studied with Hermann von Helmholtz at the University of Heidelberg, moved to United States in 1868, established the New York Ophthalmological and Aural Institute, and presented his new ophthalmoscope with two discs to the American Ophthalmological Society in July 1873. An inscription on the case of this example reads “KNAPP’S OPTHALMOSCOPE.” That on the inside reads “SHEPARD & DUDLEY / 150 WILLIAM ST. / NEW YORK.”
label: Description
content: Frederick M. Shepard Francis D. Dudley were businessmen who, in 1870, acquired the surgical instrument firm of William F. Ford. They continued this firm until 1894.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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: Gift of Richard B. Griffenhagen, D.V.M.; Accession 217776 (1958)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-07075
label: catalog number
content: M-07075
label: accession number
content: 217776
objectType: label: Object Name
content: ophthalmoscope
label: Object Name
content: ophthalmoscopes
label: Other Terms
content: Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: case: 1 in x 4 1/2 in x 2 3/4 in; 2.54 cm x 11.43 cm x 6.985 cm
label: Measurements
content: scope: 7 in x 1 7/8 in x 1/4 in; 17.78 cm x 4.7625 cm x .635 cm
label: Measurements
content: lens: 1 1/2 in x 1 1/2 in x 1/8 in; 3.81 cm x 3.81 cm x .3175 cm