Microscope
date: label: date made
content: ca 1930
name: label: maker
content: Bausch & Lomb
notes: label: Description
content: Wide field binocular dissecting instrument with very short tubes incorporating Porro prisms, rack-and-pinion focus, triple drum nosepiece, square stage, and wooden box. Bausch & Lomb introduced the basic form in 1925, and various modifications in subsequent years. This example was used at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York. The inscription reads “B. & L. O. CO.” The 229585 serial number indicates a date around 1930.
label: Description
content: Ref: Bausch & Lomb ad in <i>Transactions of the American Microscopical Society</i> 44 (April 1925): iii.
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: Gift of Rockefeller Institute through Dr. Detlev W. Bronk, President
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-09355
label: accession number
content: 224610
label: catalog number
content: M-09355
label: serial number
content: 229585
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (microscope material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (microscope material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (microscope material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (case material)
label: Measurements
content: microscope: 24.9 cm x 10.5 cm x 15.4 cm; 9 13/16 in x 4 1/8 in x 6 1/16 in
label: Measurements
content: case: 27.7 cm x 18.7 cm x 17.6 cm; 10 7/8 in x 7 3/8 in x 6 15/16 in