296 results
- Ephemera
Optician / Bamforth & Co., Ltd.
Date: [between 1970 and 1979?]- Archives and manuscripts
The Dispensing Optician
British and Irish Orthoptic SocietyDate: 1957-1970sReference: SA/OPS/C/4/2Part of: British and Irish Orthoptic Society- Archives and manuscripts
Extracts from The Optician
British and Irish Orthoptic SocietyDate: 1930-1931Reference: SA/OPS/C/4/4Part of: British and Irish Orthoptic Society- Archives and manuscripts
Committee for the preparation of Rules under Section 25 (3) of the Optician's Act, 1958
Date: 1959-1960Reference: SA/GOC/A/2Part of: General Optical Council- Ephemera
Opticians ephemera. Box 1.
- Archives and manuscripts
Opticians: position of opticians who have obtained medical qualifications and wish to practice in the medical profession as doctors and ophthalmic opticians
Date: 1948-1949Reference: SA/BMA/D.211Part of: British Medical Association- Books
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Plates for the Essays on the microscope. By George Adams, Mathematical Instrument Maker to His Majesty, and Optician to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
Adams, George, 1750-1795.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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A short dissertation on the barometer, thermometer, and other meteorological instruments: together with an account of the prognostic signs of the weather. By George Adams, Mathematical Instrument Maker to his Majesty, and Optician to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
Adams, George, 1750-1795.Date: M.DCC.XC. [1790]- Books
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To all who value their sight : a few practical suggestions and illustrations, intended briefly to awaken the attention of every individual to the condition of his sight; and to enable him to promote the improvement and preservation of that invaluable faculty / by R. B. Bate, Optician.
Bate, R. B.Date: 1825- Books
A manual of the diseases of the eye and refraction : including treatment and surgery / by George M. Gould and Walter L. Pyle.
Gould, George M. (George Milbry), 1848-1922.Date: 1900- Books
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A short account of the nature and use of spectacles. In which is recommended, A Kind of Glass for Spectacles, preferable to any hitherto made use of for that Purpose. By James Ayscough, Optician, At the Great Golden Spectacles in Ludgate-Street, London.
Ayscough, James, -approximately 1762.Date: printed in the year, MDCCL. [1750]- Books
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Geometrical and graphical essays, containing a description of the mathematical instruments used in geometry, civil and military surveying, levelling and perspective; with many new problems, illustrative of each branch. By George Adams, Mathematical - Instrument Maker to his Majesty, and Optician to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
Adams, George, 1750-1795.Date: M.DCC.XCI. [1791]- Books
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A particular account of the electrical experiments hitherto made publick, with variety of new ones, and full instructions for performing them: to which is annex'd, the description of a compleat electrical machine, and its Apparatus, with the Way of using it. Illustrated with cuts. By Francis Watkins, Optician to their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales.
Watkins, Francis, 1723-1782.Date: MDCCXLVII. [1747]- Books
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A short account of the eye, and nature of vision. Chiefly designed to illustrate the use and advantage of spectacles. Wherein Is laid down Rules for chusing Glasses proper for remedying all the different Defects of Sight. AS Also Some Reasons for preferring a particular kind of Glass, fitter than any other made Use of for that Purpose. By James Ayscough, Optician.
Ayscough, James, -approximately 1762.Date: MDCCLII. [1752]- Books
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An essay on electricity, explaining the principles of that useful science; and describing the instruments, contrived either to illustrate the theory, or render the practice entertaining. To which is now added, a letter to the author, from Mr. John Birch, Surgeon, on the Subject of Medical Electricity. The fourth edition. By George Adams, Mathematical Instrument Maker to His Majesty, and Optician to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
Adams, George, 1750-1795.Date: M.DCC.XCII. [1792]- Books
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Proposals for printing by subscription, Lectures on Natural Philosophy, considered In it's present State of Improvement. By George Adams, Author of Essays on the Microscope, Electricity, &c. Mathematical Instrument Maker to His Majesty, and Optician to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. This Work is designed to describe, in a familiar and easy Manner, the principal Phaenomena of Nature; to explain their Causes, and trace their Relation to, and Dependance on those Causes. It is intended to be subservient also to other Purposes,-to be a Source of useful and active Entertainment to young People, while it opens their Minds to enlarged Views of Nature and the Universe:-to point out the true Mode of Reasoning in Philosophy, thus enabling the Reader to distinguish what is found and solid therein, from what is hollow and vain; leading him from a Consideration of the Works of God, to acknowledge and reverence his Power, Wisdom, and Goodness. The Lectures will be written as far as possible in the Manner of Lord Bacon, and will aim (to use his Expression) at assisting the Powers of Man, and extend his Empire over the Works of Creation, by placing the Sciences in such a Light as may excite the Judgment, and promote Invention. Conditions. I. This Work shall be neatly printed in Four Octavo Volumes, illustrated with a Variety of Cuts. II. The Price to Subscribers will be Twenty-Four Shillings. III. No Money is required till the Delivery of the Work, which shall be forwarded with all convenient Expedition. IV. A List of Subscribers' Names will be printed, and delivered with the Work. Subscriptions received by the Author, G. Adams. No. 60, Fleet-Street; J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church-Yard; G. G. J. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row; and J. Philips, George-Yard, Lombard-Street. N.B. The Price will be necessarily raised to Non-Subscribers.
Adams, George, 1750-1795.Date: 1794?]- Books
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The Construction and use of the sea quadrant, commonly called Hadley's quadrant. Containing such directions, as are necessary to render the use of this noble instrument both easy and certain, particularly with respect to the back observation, which has been hitherto neglected for want of proper instructions. To which is added, an introduction, explaining the theory of the instrument in a plain and familiar manner, with correct tables of the sun's declination, which being calculated for four years are thereby rendered perpetual.
Date: 1757- Books
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Instructions for playing the chronological and historical game of England, according to Mons. L'abbe Gaultier's method.
Date: MDCCXCI. [1791]- Journals
The ophthalmic optician.
Date: [1961-]- Books
Check your optician is registered / General Optical Council.
General Optical Council.Date: [2010?]- Ephemera
M. W. Dunscombe Limited optician.
- Archives and manuscripts
Plössl, ? (fl.1855), optician
Date: 1855Reference: MS.7424/9-10Part of: Miscellany: German, 19th-20th centuries- Journals
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The Microscopical bulletin and optician's circular.
Date: [1883-1885]- Books
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Chiron: or, the mental optician. ...
Date: M.DCCLVIII. [1758]- Digital Images
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