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- Description
- This Bausch & Lomb Continental is a heavy compound monocular microscope with coarse and fine focus, triple nosepiece, trunnion, circular mechanical stage, and Lister limb with elaborate sub-stage condenser and sub-stage mirror. The inscriptions on the horseshoe base read “Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. / NEW YORK ROCHESTER CHICAGO” and “25908.”
- The florid inscription on the tube reads “G. V. BLACK / Presented / by the CLASS OF ’99 / and / The Alumni Association of the Northwestern University / DENTAL SOCIETY / March 1899.” Greene Vardiman Black (1836-1915) was the second dean of the Northwestern University Dental School.
- Ref: Bausch & Lomb, Microscopes, Microtomes, and Apparatus for Photo-Micrography (Rochester, N.Y., 1896), pp. 26-27.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- microscope, compound
- microscope
- Other Terms
- microscope, compound; Dentistry
- date made
- 1899
- maker
- Bausch & Lomb
- place made
- United States: New York, Rochester
- Physical Description
- brass (overall material)
- wood (overall material)
- glass (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 15 3/4 in x 8 7/16 in x 9 1/16 in; 40.005 cm x 21.43125 cm x 23.01875 cm
- ID Number
- MG.M-11505
- catalog number
- M-11505
- accession number
- 263971
- catalog number
- 263971.01
- Credit Line
- Mrs. George L. Dreman
- subject
- Science & Scientific Instruments
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Microscopes
- Science & Mathematics
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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