Microscope
date: label: date made
content: ca 1900
name: label: maker
content: Bausch & Lomb
notes: label: Description
content: Bausch & Lomb described their Continental CD as “the type of completeness and compactness, adapted for all general work, and having a grace and elegance of design and finish in keeping with the mechanical excellence of every detail.” This example is a compound monocular with coarse and fine focus, triple nosepiece with three objectives, inclination joint, locking lever with celluloid handle, circular mechanical stage, complex sub-stage iris apparatus, and sub-stage mirror. The inscriptions on the horseshoe base read “Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. / ROCHESTER, N.Y. & NEW YORK CITY / 14303. The inscription on the top of the fine focus screw reads “PAT. FEB. 16. 1897.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Bausch & Lomb, <i>Microscopes and Accessories</i> (Rochester, 1900), pp. 42-43.
label: Description
content: Edward Bausch, “Microscope,” U.S. Patent 577344 (Feb. 16, 1897).
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
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content: Microscopes
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bausch & Lomb Optical Comapny
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-12199
label: accession number
content: 272522
label: catalog number
content: M-12199
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 36.4 cm x 10.6 cm x 14.5 cm; 14 5/16 in x 4 3/16 in x 5 11/16 in