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Microscopes to munitions: Ernst Abbe, Carl Zeiss, and the transformation of technical optics, 1850-1914.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Microscopes to munitions: Ernst Abbe, Carl Zeiss, and the transformation of technical optics, 1850-1914./
Author:	Feffer, Stuart M.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 1994,
Description:	346 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 56-07, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International56-07A.
Subject:	Science history. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9504797
ISBN:	9798208816264

Microscopes to munitions: Ernst Abbe, Carl Zeiss, and the transformation of technical optics, 1850-1914.
Feffer, Stuart M.

Microscopes to munitions: Ernst Abbe, Carl Zeiss, and the transformation of technical optics, 1850-1914. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1994 - 346 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 56-07, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 1994.

Ernst Abbe was a physicist and a professor at the University of Jena, best known for his contributions to the theory and design of optical instruments. Most of his work in this area was done in association with or (later) as proprietor of the firm of Carl Zeiss--a small workshop specializing in the custom manufacture of scientific instruments when he joined it, but an industrial enterprise with over a thousand employees by the time he retired. Abbe revolutionized the design and construction of microscope systems during the 1870s and 1880s, building Zeiss into Germany's premier optical supplier. The first half of the dissertation deals primarily with developments in microscopy, surveying the state of physical and practical knowledge about the construction of the microscope at the time Abbe began his work, showing how he related to that knowledge and made use of it, and examining how various communities of microscopists responded to what he published and what Zeiss' workshop produced. The remainder traces the effects that Abbe's and Zeiss' success with high-performance microscope systems had on the firm and on the German optical industry. Among other things, it prompted Abbe and Zeiss to invest in a new glassworks, which was eventually established with financial assistance from the Prussian government. Several circles in Berlin were extremely interested in this factory for reasons of their own, and the dissertation follows their interests, tying them to the political efforts that also led to the establishment of the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt. The dissertation also examines a period of explosive growth which the Zeiss company underwent in the 1890s and 1900s as many of the techniques and materials that had previously transformed microscopy found new places on the battlefield or at sea, in the form of new optical range finders, binoculars, gun sights, and other instruments of war.

ISBN: 9798208816264Subjects--Topical Terms:

2144850
Science history.
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Abbe, Ernst

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