Object Details
- Bausch & Lomb Optical Company
- Description
- Bausch & Lomb introduced their Small Continental in 1891. This example is a New Continental BB of the sort introduced three years later. It is a compound monocular with coarse and fine focus, double nosepiece (one is missing), inclination joint, large rectangular stage with vulcanite top, sub-stage iris diaphragm, sub-stage two-sided mirror, and large horseshoe base. The inscription on the base reads “Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. / ROCHESTER, N.Y. & NEW YORK CITY.” The 16666 serial number, on a circular tag on the back of the base, indicates a date of 1894.
- Ref: Henry Bausch, “New American Microscopes, made by Bausch & Lomb Optical Co., Rochester, N.Y.,” Proceedings of the American Society of Microscopists 13 (1891): 116-119.
- “A New Continental Microscope,” Proceedings of the American Society of Microscopists 15 (Oct. 1894): 12-14.
- Bausch & Lomb, Microscopes and Accessories (Rochester and New York, 1895), pp. 4-5.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Bausch & Lomb Optical Company
- 1895-1898
- ID Number
- MG.M-12201
- accession number
- 272522
- catalog number
- M-12201
- Object Name
- microscope
- Other Terms
- microscope; Monocular; Compound
- Physical Description
- brass (overall material)
- rubber (overall material)
- lead (overall material)
- glass (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 32.9 cm x 10.2 cm x 16 cm; 12 15/16 in x 4 1/32 in x 6 5/16 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_1060243
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a8-ffb3-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
