Object Details
- Bausch & Lomb Optical Company
- Description
- This is a compound monocular with coarse and fine focus, trunnion, square stage, and support for sub-stage diaphragm and for mirror. The tube and trunnions are nickel; the arm and the curvaceous Y-shaped foot are Japanned cast iron; the stage is glass. The eyepiece is missing. The inscription on the tube reads “BAUSCH & LOMB OPTICAL CO. / ROCHESTER. N.Y.” The donor identified this as a Model F made around 1882.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Bausch & Lomb Optical Company
- 1882
- ID Number
- MG.M-12192
- accession number
- 272522
- catalog number
- M-12192
- Object Name
- microscope
- Other Terms
- microscope; Monocular; Compound
- Physical Description
- nickle (overall material)
- steel (overall material)
- brass (overall material)
- glass (overall material)
- black (overall color)
- Measurements
- overall: 27.5 cm x 15.6 cm x 16.6 cm; 10 13/16 in x 6 5/32 in x 6 17/32 in
- place made
- United States: New York, Rochester
- associated place
- 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_1060239
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-258d-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
