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United States: New York, Rochester / ca 1876

Microscope

Microscope

The Smithsonian catalogs Microscope as microscope in its Science & Scientific Instruments records.

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Bausch & Lomb introduced their Large Student’s Microscope in 1877, selling it for $90. Ernst Gundlach, a Prussian immigrant who had become superintendent of the firm’s newly established microscope department in 1876, was largely responsible for the form. This example is of that sort. It is a compound monocular with coarse and fine focus, rectangular stage, trunnion, sub-stage aperture ring with th

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The Smithsonian lists the object under Science & Scientific Instruments and dates it ca 1876.

Bausch & Lomb introduced their Large Student’s Microscope in 1877, selling it for $90. Ernst Gundlach, a Prussian immigrant who had become superintendent of the firm’s newly established microscope department in 1876, was largely responsible for the form. This example is of that sort. It is a compound monocular with coarse and fine focus, rectangular stage, trunnion, sub-stage aperture ring with th

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Smithsonian InstitutionMicroscope

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