Microsurgical Knife
date: label: date made
content: ca 1985
name: label: maker
content: Sharpoint, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: Rolf Dieter Schmidt (1933-2022) was a German toolmaker and mechanical engineer who moved to the U.S. in the 1950s and, with his brother, established Sharpoint in his garage in Mohnton, Pa., in 1972. The firm specialized in tools for ophthalmology, held several patents, and obtained a trademark in 1979.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: J. Wm. Rosenthal
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0504.02
label: accession number
content: 1985.0504
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0504.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Knife, Microsurgery
label: Object Name
content: knife
label: Object Name
content: surgical instrument
label: Other Terms
content: Knife, Microsurgery; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 8 3/4 in x 2 3/8 in; 1.27 cm x 22.225 cm x 6.0325 cm