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This digital collection features selected scientific instruments, apparatus, and analytical tools from the Institute's museum as well as photographs, rare-book engravings, and illustrations depicting various types of equipment and machinery found in laboratories, manufacturing plants, and mechanical treatises. Inventions from book wheels to fireballs can be found here, alongside more modern innovations such as Gammacells and Geiger counters.

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Creator Bausch & Lomb Optical Company ✖Remove constraint Creator: Bausch & Lomb Optical Company Format Physical Object ✖Remove constraint Format: Physical Object Genre Scientific apparatus and instruments ✖Remove constraint Genre: Scientific apparatus and instruments Place New York (State)--Rochester ✖Remove constraint Place: New York (State)--Rochester Rights Public Domain Mark 1.0 ✖Remove constraint Rights: Public Domain Mark 1.0 Date Unknown ✖Remove constraint Date: Unknown

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    Bausch & Lomb Duboscq Type Colorimeter

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    A: Duboscq type colorimeter, biological, with electric illuminator. Hollow black cast iron base attached to a sloping cast iron upright supporting the reader, prisms, and sample cups; reader detaches with two metal…

    • Manufacturer Bausch & Lomb Optical Company
    • Subject Bausch & Lomb Optical Company, Colorimetry--Instruments, Colorimetry
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    Bausch & Lomb Duboscq Type Colorimeter

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    Cast iron base attached to a sloping cast iron upright supporting the reader, prisms, sample cups, and a mechanism for raising and lowering the sample cups on a focusing rail; metal knobs on each side control the height…

    • Manufacturer Bausch & Lomb Optical Company
    • Subject Bausch & Lomb Optical Company, Colorimetry--Instruments, Colorimetry
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    Bausch & Lomb Spectroscope

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    Spectroscope is in the style of the original Bunsen-Kirchhoff design. Triangular glass prism sits on a round, brass dias and is held in place by a metal arm attached to the dias; prism is coated in black paint with only…

    • Manufacturer Bausch & Lomb Optical Company
    • Subject Spectrometer, Bausch & Lomb Optical Company, Spectrum analysis, Spectroscope

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