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Gall & Lembke
| Name | Gall & Lembke |
| Ortssitz | New York City |
| Straße | Union Square 21 |
| Art des Unternehmens | Apparatefabrik |
| Anmerkungen | Adresse (um 1884): No. 21 Union Square (Broadway-Seite). Branche: Practical Opticians, Importers and Manufacturers of Scientific Apparatus. |
| Quellenangaben | [New Yorks great industries (1884) 341] |
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| 1840 |
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| Import naturwiss. Apparate |
1884 |
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1884 |
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| naturwissenschaftliche Apparate |
1884 |
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1884 |
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| optische Geräte |
1884 |
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1884 |
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| ZEIT | 1884 |
| THEMA | Firmendarstellung |
| TEXT | Optical science has attained such a degree of marvellous perfection that the most sanguine observer can hardly hope for any further discoveries of importance. In the field of optical research are many toilers, but we know of none more worthy of extended reference than the widely known and respected house of Messrs. Gall & Lembke, the leading opticians, not only of the metropolis, but also of the United States. The business which has now attained such extended proportions was originally founded by Mr. Joseph Gall in 1840. He is a native of Germany, who at an early period in life devoted himself to the study of optics, and who learned his trade with the old London house of Dollands', the celebrated telescope makers, known all over the world for the accuracy of their instruments. From the date of his commencing business in New York, forty-four years ago, Mr. Gall has pursued the study of optical science and the perfecting of optical instruments with a zeal worthy of the great success his house has attained and which has placed before an appreciative public the most perfect spectacles, eye-glasses, etc., etc., that have yet been manufactured. The firm of Gall & Lembke is composed of Mr. Joseph Gall and Mr. Charles Lembke (also a practical and skilful optician). They are centrally and eligibly located in a magnificent store on the Broadway side of Union Square, and where they carry the largest and most complete stock of fine optical goods in the country, inclusive of opera-glasses, eye-glasses, spectacles, spy-glasses, field-glasses, in every possible variety of style, power and setting. They manufacture everything in the optical line, such as lenses, telescopes, thermometers, etc., and it is worthy of especial mention that this is the only house in America that gives a thorough test of all irregularities existing in the eye before adjusting the required power of the glass. Their patent achromatic spectacles are a wonderful triumph of skill and ingenuity. They always give the greatest satisfaction, imparting ease and comfort to the eyes, representing clear and sharply denned images, free from chromatic aberration and spherical distortion. The achromatic lenses are composed of two lenses firmly cemented together, one of which is a convex lens made of crown, and the other a concave lens made of flint glass, their combined action neutralizing the peculiarity in single lenses called spherical aberratiou. The firm are also manufacturers of the famous "double-vision glasses," which enable the wearer to see through one pair of glasses at a distance or near. They were invented by Benjamin Franklin, and Mr. Gall made similar glasses for the late Prof.. Morse, who, whilst having an audience with the Emperor of Russia while in St. Petersburg, was asked why he had such a perfect crack through the exact middle in both of his glasses. The professor answered that the lower part was to rest and aid him in his inventions, while the top port enabled him to follow the electric flashes of his telegraph wires from the old to the new world. Beside these glasses they manufacture tinted or "thermoscopic glasses" for reading, "colored neutral glasses," serving to eliminate any feeling of glare or dazzling, etc., and every other variety known to science. They are the only house manufacturing cylindrical glasses for adjustment to the eye, or of lenses accurately adjusted to the eye in opera glasses. The trade of this establishment extends not only throughout the entire country, but likewise in Europe, where their goods bear the highest of reputations. Connected with the house is Mr. Charles Funkenstein Gall, nephew of the senior partner, and a gentleman of high attainments in the profession of engineering, and as popular as he is respected throughout the community. The honorable record of the proprietors of this establishment is so well known and established that additional comment upon our part would be superfluous. |
| QUELLE | [New Yorks great industries (1884) 341] |
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