Object Details
- Bausch & Lomb
- Description
- 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.
- Ref: Bausch & Lomb ad in Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 44 (April 1925): iii.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Rockefeller Institute through Dr. Detlev W. Bronk, President
- ca 1930
- ID Number
- MG.M-09355
- accession number
- 224610
- catalog number
- M-09355
- serial number
- 229585
- Object Name
- microscope
- Physical Description
- brass (microscope material)
- glass (microscope material)
- metal (microscope material)
- wood (case material)
- Measurements
- 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
- 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
- place made
- United States: New York, Rochester
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Microscopes
- Science & Mathematics
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Science & Scientific Instruments
- Record ID
- nmah_1348605
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ac-9c6a-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
