Object Details
- Bausch & Lomb
- Description
- Dissecting microscope with a nickel-plated tube, two lenses, square glass stage, sub-stage mirror, black horseshoe base, and wooden case. The inscription reads “Bausch & Lomb Optical Co.” and the 61518 serial number suggests a date of around 1906. According to trade literature, the form (Stand Y) was the largest and most complete of the Bausch & Lomb dissecting microscopes, and was first constructed according to the specifications of Paul Meyer, a German scientist who was a leader of the Naples Zoological Station in the last quarter of the nineteenth century.
- Ref: Bausch & Lomb, Microscopes and Accessories (Rochester, 1908), pp. 53-54.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
- ID Number
- MG.211531.18
- catalog number
- M-09789
- accession number
- 211531
- Object Name
- microscope
- Measurements
- case: 7 7/8 in x 7 1/4 in x 6 3/8 in; 20.0025 cm x 18.415 cm x 16.1925 cm
- microscope: 6 1/2 in x 3 11/16 in x 5 5/16 in; 16.51 cm x 9.36625 cm x 13.49375 cm
- 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_1348402
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ac-aae5-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
