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Microscope
260
(Reichert-Jung; microscope Neovar 2; 1980s)
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.
Microscope 260 is signed as ‘REICHERT-JUNG’, model NEOVAR 2, and has
the serial number 391290, being dated to the 1980s. The instrument has three
binocular heads. LAST
EDITED: 02.10.2022 |
