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Double demonstration eyepiece from
Reichert (1930s) Carl Reichert (1851 – 1922) was an optician
who established one of the principal microscope manufacturing firms in Europe
in the late 19th century. Reichert married into the Leitz
family in 1874 (and was son in law of Ernst Leitz).
In 1876 in Vienna, he founded the Optische Werke C.
Reichert. He employed some Leitz technicians,
explaining one reason why his products were so similar to
those of Ernst Leitz of Wetzlar.
Reichert designed new lenses, lighting equipment for microscopes, and one of
the first microscopes for the study of metal surfaces. By 1900, the company
had produced 30,000 microscopes, and 100,000 microscopes in 1930. Instruments
were usually signed "C. Reichert, Wien". The firm was partially
sold to American Optical in 1962, which was taken over in 1968 by Warner
Lambert. By 1986, this company merged with Jung of Heidelberg and was sold to
Cambridge Instruments, which in 1990 merged with Wild Leitz
to form the Leica Group. In 1999 Reichert stopped microscope production,
concentrating to instruments for sample preparations for transmission
electron microscopy. LAST
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