Object Details
- Bausch & Lomb
- Description
- Barbara McClintock (1902-1992), the cytogeneticist who won the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, used this wide field binocular to examine the morphological mutations in kernels of corn. It is a model AKW with drum nosepiece, rack-and-pinion, and square glass stage. The inscriptions read “BAUSCH / & LOMB/ OPT. CO.” and “PAT. 1,622,350.”
- Ref: John C. Sabel, “Binocular Microscope,” U.S. Patent 1,622,350 (March 29, 1927).
- Bausch & Lomb, Scientific Instruments (Rochester, N.Y., 1939), pp. 57-58.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Peter M. McKinley
- ca 1927
- ID Number
- 1993.0074.01.1
- accession number
- 1993.0074
- catalog number
- 1993.0074.01.1
- Object Name
- microscope
- place made
- United States: New York, Rochester
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
- Microscopes
- Science & Mathematics
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Science & Scientific Instruments
- Philanthropy
- Women
- Record ID
- nmah_688832
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-051b-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
