Microscope
date: label: date made
content: mid 20th century
name: label: maker
content: Bausch & Lomb
notes: label: Description
content: This Bausch & Lomb metallurgical microscope, model BHM, is a small compound monocular with coarse and fine focus, handle arm, inclination joint, horseshoe base, and electrical wires for illumination. The inscription reads “BAUSCH & LOMB OPTICAL CO. / Rochester, N.Y. U.S.A.” The triangular B&L logo appears on the base. An inscription on one side reads “B.S. 30425A.” This was used by William F. Meggers (1888-1966), an American physicist who worked at the National Bureau of Standards, and who specialized in spectroscopy.
label: Description
content: Ref: Bausch & Lomb, <i>Microscopes and Microtomes</i> (Rochester, N.Y., 1919), pp. 98-99.
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: Edith R. Meggers
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.314637.12171
label: catalog number
content: 314637.12171
label: accession number
content: 314637
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 1/4 in x 4 1/8 in x 5 5/8 in; 26.035 cm x 10.4775 cm x 14.2875 cm