Trial Set of Lenses
date: label: associated dates
content: 1978 10 27 / 1978 10 27
name: label: maker
content: Bausch & Lomb Optical Company
notes: label: Description
content: The “Pat'd Aug. 6. 1918” inscription on this item refers to Edmund Kandler, “Ophthalmic-Test-Lens Tray,” U.S. Patent 1,274,557 (Aug. 6, 1918), assigned to Bausch & Lomb Optical Company. Edmund Kandler (ca. 1866-1931) was born in Austria, studied at the Technical Institute in Vienna, and moved to the United States in 1889. After spending some time manufacturing surveying instruments, he found employment with the Spencer Lens Co., and later with Bausch & Lomb.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Rochester
label: associated place
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Eugene R. Barenburg in the name of the family of the late J. W. Barenburg, M.D.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.2269.01
label: catalog number
content: 1978.2269.01
label: accession number
content: 1978.2269
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Trial Lens Set
label: Other Terms
content: Trial Lens Set; Refraction, Ocular; Interior Design and Furnishing
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood, mahogany? (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brown, reddish (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: ivory (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: red (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: arts and crafts (overall style)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 83.5 cm x 87 cm x 41 cm; 32 7/8 in x 34 1/4 in x 16 5/32 in