Microscope
date: label: date made
content: 1882
name: label: maker
content: Bausch & Lomb Optical Company
notes: label: Description
content: This is a compound monocular with coarse and fine focus, trunnion, square stage, and support for sub-stage diaphragm and for mirror. The tube and trunnions are nickel; the arm and the curvaceous Y-shaped foot are Japanned cast iron; the stage is glass. The eyepiece is missing. The inscription on the tube reads “BAUSCH & LOMB OPTICAL CO. / ROCHESTER. N.Y.” The donor identified this as a Model F made around 1882.
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-12192
label: accession number
content: 272522
label: catalog number
content: M-12192
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
label: Other Terms
content: microscope; Monocular; Compound
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: nickle (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 27.5 cm x 15.6 cm x 16.6 cm; 10 13/16 in x 6 5/32 in x 6 17/32 in