Goerz Binoculars
notes: label: Description
content: This is a black metal instrument with black leather covering the barrels that probably dates from the World War I period. The eye end of the left prism housing is marked “C. P. / GOERZ / BERLIN-WIEN” and that on the right is marked “6x / HELINOX / TRIEDER-BINOCLE / DRP.” There is a center focus, and fine adjustment on each eyepiece. These were given to the Smithsonian by Mrs. Leonard Wood, and were probably used by her husband, an eminent Army physician.
label: Description
content: Carl Paul Goerz began in business in Berlin in 1886. The Opticsche Anstalt C.P. Goerz (C.P. Goerz Optical Institute) was formed in 1890, and established a factory for military optics in Vienna in 1905. The firm began making Galilean binoculars in 1891 and prism binoculars in 1896. They boasted that their Triëder binoculars were as “small as an opera glass” and “more powerful than the largest field glass.” They introduced the Helinox design in 1911. “DRP” refers to Deutsches Reichspatent, a term in use until 1945.
label: Description
content: Ref: C. P. Goerz, <i>Triëder-Binocles</i> (Berlin, 1906).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Military
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content: Optics
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ZZ.RSN79862W41
objectType: label: Object Name
content: binoculars
label: Object Name
content: prism binoculars
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 in x 4 1/2 in x 2 in; 17.78 cm x 11.43 cm x 5.08 cm