Microscope

Microscope

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Description
This compound monocular is an example of the American Concentric microscope that Bausch & Lomb brought to market in the mid-1880s. It has coarse and fine focus, circular stage, and tri-leg base. The sub-stage iris diaphragm and mirror can be angled above and below the stage. The body moves, as it were, within a circular arm. The inscriptions on the stage and sub-stage apparatus read “BAUSCH & LOMB OPTICAL CO.” The inscriptions on the arm read “PAT. OCT. 3, 1876” and “PAT. OCT. 13, 1885.” Jacob Dolson Cox, a lawyer, Union Army general, governor of Ohio, Secretary of the Interior, and active microscopist, devised the form.
Ref: Bausch & Lomb, Price List of Microscopes, Objectives and Accessories (Rochester, 1884), pp. 22-23.
Location
Currently not on view
Object Name
microscope
date made
ca 1885
maker
Bausch & Lomb
place made
United States: New York, Rochester
Measurements
overall: 12 1/4 in x 7 1/2 in x 10 1/2 in; 31.115 cm x 19.05 cm x 26.67 cm
ID Number
MG.M-12189
accession number
272522
catalog number
M-12189
272522.04
Credit Line
Bausch & Lomb Optical Company
subject
Science & Scientific Instruments
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Science & Mathematics
Data Source
National Museum of American History
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Comments

"Unless there is a separate set of binocular tubes not shown, this is a monocular model."

Paul Ferraglio

Sun, 2016-05-08 18:03

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