Bausch & Lomb Compound Microscope · Atkins Library: Exhibits

Bausch & Lomb Compound Microscope

Item

Title

Bausch & Lomb Compound Microscope

Description

The monocular microscope has a cast iron horseshoe base. The pillar, cast as one piece, and the limb is made of iron and painted black. The brass arm supports the body-tube, which has a triple nosepiece. The coarse adjustment is by rack work, and the screw for fine adjusting is on top of the limb. Below the square stage are a swinging Abbe condenser, an iris diaphragm, and a concave substage double mirror. The microscope is signed: "Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. Rochester, N.Y." Serial number 104100 is engraved at the end of the tube. The wooden carrying box has a crack in the back of the box from top to bottom. The case has some signs of wear and tear with a lock without a key.

Condition:

Cosmetically: clear marks from wear and age. Rust on the brass sections of the microscope.
Optically: Lenses and eyepiece are clear.
Mechanically: Due to rust the instrument is difficult to manipulate, the fine focusing, coarse focusing, lens and hinges are difficult to maneuver.

Subject

Microscopes

Creator

Bausch & Lomb

Source

Dean Reynolds Microscope Collection Powerpoint

Publisher

UNC Charlotte

Contributor

Laura Burgess

Rights

Texts and images from this collection may not be used for any commercial purpose without prior permission from the Graduate Office, UNC Charlotte.

Relation

N/A

Format

Microscope: 11" closed, 14" extended
Case: 14 1/2" x 6 1/2" x 8 1/4"

Language

N/A

Type

Three-dimensional object

Identifier

070629

Coverage

Rochester, New York, United States

Date

c. 1915

Item sets

Tags

Monocular American