Ottawa / Oxford / Philadelphia / Pittsburgh / Washington / Cambridgeport / Naples / Rochester / Boston / Washington / DC / London / Chicago / /
Company
Otto Schott / Massachusetts Optical / MIT Press / George Eastman / Lomb / Allegheny / Ernest Abbe / Wratten / American Optical Company / Carl Zeiss / Bausch / Alvan Clark & Sons / American optical / Google / Eastman Kodak / Kodak Research Laboratories / /
Continent
America / Europe / /
Country
Canada / United Kingdom / Germany / United States / /
Event
Person Travel / M&A / Business Partnership / /
Facility
Allegheny Observatory / Finsbury Technical College / University of Michigan / American Institute of Electrical Engineers / University of Chicago / /
IndustryTerm
optical equipment / cameras and other optical equipment / whip manufacturer / /
Movie
Before the Revolution / /
Organization
Optics Division / American Institute of Electrical Engineers / University of Michigan / Ann Arbor / Optical Society of America / Rochester NY / Plato’s Academy / American Philosophical Society / Optical Society of America1 Draft / American Physical Society / Finsbury Technical College / American Academy of Arts and Sciences / National Bureau of Standards Perley Nutting / Boston Philosophical Society / Geological Society of America / Royal Society of London / Photographic Historical Society / American Optical Society / Cornell / MIT / New York State Optical Society / University of Chicago / Chicago / Massachusetts Optical Society / National Academy of Sciences / American Optical Association / American Chemical Society / Congress / the University of Chicago / National Bureau of Standards / American Association for the Advancement of Science / national government / U. S. Army Ordnance Department / Optical Society in London / Royal Society / Stanford / /
Person
S. W. Stratton / Ralph S. Bates / Marshall D. Ewell / John Adams / George Eastman / W. F. King / J. S. Plaskett / Hoboken / Joel Hastings Metcalf / F. E. Wright / John A. Brashear / P. Bankiston / C. E. Kenneth Mees / Samuel W. Stratton / L. A. Jones / Taunton / Alexander Gleichen / Dominion Observatory / Molyneux Walmsley / A. C. Lunn / Paul S. Boyer / W. J. Hussey / Troy / S. P. Thompson / John McAllister / /
Position
Unitarian Minister and Amateur Astronomer / Astronomer / Physician / founder / G. Priest / assistant / investigator / Precision Instrument Maker / chief physicist / whip / Optical Instrument Designer / King / Chief Astronomer / Colonel / Physicist / young chemist / Director / worker / Chief Astronomer / /
Product
Franklin / /
ProvinceOrState
New York / Michigan / Wisconsin / Massachusetts / /
PublishedMedium
the Optical Review / the Optical Journal / the American Journal of Science / Optical Review / /
Prehistory of the Optical Society of America1 DraftOptics, both practical and fundamental, has had a long history beginning with the Assyrians and Egyptians, and continuing with the Greeks, Romans, and Arabs.