Object Details
- Description
- This Bausch & Lomb Model GGBET microscope is a stereoscopic instrument with coarse and fine focus, quadruple nosepiece, square mechanical stage, inclination joint, sub-stage condenser and iris diaphragm, sub-stage mirror, and V-shaped base. The inscription on the eyepiece reads “BAUSCH & LOMB OPTICAL CO. / ROCHESTER, N.Y.” The 251496 serial number indicates a date of around 1936. A tag on the base reads “PROPERTY OF U.S. GOVERNMENT / PHS / 800 / 35990.”
- This was used in the mid-1960s, in the National Institutes of Health Division of Biologics Standards, in connection with the development of a live virus vaccine for rubella (German measles). Dr. Harry M. Meyer, Jr. and Dr. Paul D. Parkman led this project.
- Ref: Bausch & Lomb, Scientific Instruments (Rochester, N.Y., 1939), p. 30.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Government Transfer, Department of Health Education and Welfare, The Federal Food and Drug Administration
- 1936
- ID Number
- 1977.0514.01
- accession number
- 1977.0514
- catalog number
- 1977.0514.01
- serial number
- 251496
- Object Name
- microscope, binocular
- Physical Description
- glass (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 35.6 cm x 16.1 cm x 19.3 cm; 14 in x 6 5/16 in x 7 5/8 in
- place made
- United States: New York, Rochester
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Microscopes
- The Antibody Initiative
- Health & Medicine
- Science & Mathematics
- Antibody Initiative: Measles, Mumps, and Rubella
- National Museum of American History
- subject
- Science & Scientific Instruments
- Record ID
- nmah_529505
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a3-7b12-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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