Digital Collections

Search

Advanced Search

Find results with:

Add another field

Search by date

to

Searching collections:

Medical Artifacts Collection

Add or remove collections

Home Combination Otoscope and May Ophthalmoscope

Rate

To link to this object, paste this link in email, IM or document

To embed this object, paste this HTML in website

Combination Otoscope and May Ophthalmoscope

View Description

Download

small (250x250 max)

medium (500x500 max)

large ( > 500x500)

Full Resolution

Print

Loading content ...

Description

Rating
Artifact Name	Combination Otoscope and May Ophthalmoscope
Type of Object	Ophthalmoscope
Manufacturer	Wappler Electric Co.
Place of Manufacture	Germany; New York (N.Y.)
Date of Manufacture	1910-1920
Time Period	Twentieth century
Dimensions	4.7 cm. x 15.5 cm. x 7 cm.
Physical Details	Combination electric ophthalmoscope and otoscope package. Black leather case with green suede interior and exterior slide catch houses single battery handle and heads to perform the function of either an ophthalmoscope or an otoscope. Ophthalmoscope head has 24 lenses fixed on a rotating dial, and is inscribed, "May Ophthalmoscope, Wappler Electric Co. New York, U.S.A. Pat. Dec. 12, 1916 Made in Germany." Otoscope head has two magnifying heads, one attached to the main body with a pivoting hinge, and is packaged with two aural specula of different sizes. Otoscope head inscriptions read: "Wappler E. Co. N.Y. Pat. Nov. 8 1910" Case also contains one extra objective for otoscope.
Medical Subject	Ophthalmoscopes
Accession Number	1981.12
Type	Stillimage
Format	image/jp2
Rights Management	© VCU. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 Acknowledgement of the Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is required.
Collection	Medical Artifacts Collection
Contributor	Tompkins-McCaw Library. Special Collections & Archives
Digital Publisher	VCU Libraries
Local genre	medical artifact

Tags

Add tags for Combination Otoscope and May Ophthalmoscope

View as list | View as tag cloud

Comments

Post a Comment for Combination Otoscope and May Ophthalmoscope

you wish to report:

Your comment:

Your Name:

Submit

Cancel

...

Powered by CONTENTdm®