Microscope
date: label: date made
content: ca 1870
name: label: maker
content: Bausch & Lomb
notes: label: Description
content: This is an Excelsior Pocket and Dissecting Microscope that fits into and stands up in a small rectangular wooden case. The lenses can be used singly or in combination, or removed from the stand and used independently. There is a concave glass stage fitted into a hard-rubber frame, and a sub-stage mirror. Dissecting needles fit into groves in the lid. New, it cost $2.75 (with three lenses), or $2.50 (with two). There is no inscription on this example, but the number “10” is stamped into the wood. John J. Bausch, a founding member of the Bausch & Lomb Optical Co., received a patent on the form in 1874.
label: Description
content: Ref: John J. Bausch, “Microscope,” U.S. Patent 151,746 (June 9, 1874).
label: Description
content: James W. Queen & Co., Priced and Illustrated Catalogue of Optical Instruments (Philadelphia, 1874), pp. 40-41.
label: Description
content: Bausch & Lomb, Price List of Microscopes (New York, 1877), n.p.
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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Miss Charlotte B. Ward
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-09734
label: catalog number
content: M-09734
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bottle
label: Other Terms
content: Bottle; Containers
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brown (stopper color)
label: Physical Description
content: brown (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: glass, ?, transparent (disjoint section material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass, ?, transparent (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: amber (disjoint part popular color name)
label: Physical Description
content: amber (overall popular color name)
label: Physical Description
content: narrow mouth (overall shape)
label: Physical Description
content: round body (overall shape)