Object Details
- Bausch & Lomb
- Description
- Bausch & Lomb Model BH8 compound monocular with coarse and fine adjustment, triple nosepiece, square stage with mechanism for moving the specimen, inclination joint, sub-stage condenser, sub-stage mirror, U-shaped base, and wooden box. The inscriptions on the base read “BAUSCH & LOMB OPTICAL CO. / ROCHESTER, N.Y. 30441” and “BLS.” The inscription on the stage reads “BAUSCH & LOMB OPTICAL CO. / Rochester, N.Y. / Patented Aug. 24, ’97.”
- Ref: Ref: Edward Bausch, “Microscope Attachment,” U.S. Patent 588,689 (Aug. 24, 1897).
- Bausch & Lomb, Microscopes and Accessories (Rochester, N.Y., 1914), pp. 32-33.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Roy Edward Clark, Jr.
- ca 1912
- ID Number
- MG.315329.01
- catalog number
- 315329.01
- accession number
- 315329
- Object Name
- microscope
- Physical Description
- wood (case material)
- metal (microscope material)
- brass (microscope material)
- glass (microscope material)
- Measurements
- microscope: 34.8 cm x 10.3 cm x 14.5 cm; 13 11/16 in x 4 1/16 in x 5 11/16 in
- case: 38 cm x 18.1 cm x 21.2 cm; 14 15/16 in x 7 1/8 in x 8 3/8 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_1348958
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ac-99be-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
