Microscope
date: label: date made
content: 1905
name: label: maker
content: Bausch & Lomb Optical Company
notes: label: Description
content: Bausch & Lomb explained that their Model LA was “especially constructed for petrographical and mineralogical work to supply the demand for a thoroughly reliable instrument having all essential features at a very moderate cost.” This example is a compound monocular with coarse and fine focus, inclination joint, triple nosepiece, circular revolving circular stage, substage dome diaphragm, sub-stage mirror. A double chambered box in the tube holds the analyzing prism; the polarizer is mounted below the stage. The inscription on the black horseshoe base reads “Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. / ROCHESTER N.Y. & NEW YORK CITY.” The 52778 serial number indicates a date around 1905.
label: Description
content: Ref: Bausch & Lomb, < i>Microscopes and Accessory Apparatus</i> (Rochester, 1904), pp. 40-41.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Rochester
label: associated place
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-12208
label: accession number
content: 272522
label: catalog number
content: M-12208
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
label: Other Terms
content: microscope; Compound; Monocular
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 37.5 cm x 10.1 cm x 14.6 cm; 14 3/4 in x 3 31/32 in x 5 3/4 in