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Carl Zeiss AG was a particularly prominent company in this field. [4] In 1913 60% of British optical glass was manufactured in Jena and 30% by Parra Mantois in France. [1] After the start of the war France struggled to meet its own requirements and very little was made available for export to Britain. [1] [5]
First workshop of Carl Zeiss in the center of Jena, c. 1847 Carl Zeiss Jena (1910) One of the Stasi's cameras with the special SO-3.5.1 (5/17mm) lens developed by Carl Zeiss, a so-called "needle eye lens", for shooting through keyholes or holes down to 1 mm in diameter 2 historical lenses of Carl Zeiss, Nr. 145077 and Nr. 145078, Tessar 1:4,5 F=5,5cm DRP 142294 (produced before 1910) Carl ...
The later refinement by Ernst Abbe and his cooperation with glass scientist Otto Schott, who managed to produce a better type of Crown glass in 1888, and instrument maker Carl Zeiss resulted in 1894 in the commercial introduction of improved 'modern' Porro prism binoculars by the Carl Zeiss company. [1] [8] Binoculars of this type use a pair of ...
Before World War 1, Ross and Zeiss worked quite closely together, but at the outbreak of War the British Government put Ross in control of the newly opened Carl Zeiss binocular and optical factory in Mill Hill, London. A 1902 Ross advertisement includes: Ross Symmetrical Anastigmats; Zeiss New Planar and Unar lenses; Zeiss Convertible Anastigmats
Carl's father, Johann Gottfried August Zeiss (1785–1849) was born in Rastenberg, where his forefathers had worked as artisans for over 100 years.August moved with his parents to Buttstädt, a small regional capital north of Weimar, where he married Johanna Antoinette Friederike Schmith (1786–1856).
In 1926 the German branch of Goerz merged with ICA, Contessa-Nettel and Ernemann to form Zeiss Ikon. This had major consequences for the company. The Carl Zeiss company held a majority stake in the new company and demanded that the other firms end their lens production. Thus the European Dagor lenses were made by Carl Zeiss Jena in limited number.
The glass technical laboratory founded in Jena in 1884 The first hexagonal segments for the main mirror of the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) being cast by Schott. In 1884, Otto Schott, Ernst Abbe, Carl Zeiss and his son Roderich Zeiss founded the Glastechnische Laboratorium Schott & Genossen (Glass Technical Laboratory Schott & Associates) in Jena, Thuringia, Germany [2] [3] which initially ...
The Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung was founded in 1889; Ernst Abbe turned over his shares in these firms, as well as those of Roderich Zeiss, Carl Zeiss's son, to the foundation by 1891. [4] In 1919 Otto Schott also donated his shares to the foundation, giving it the sole proprietorship of the glass works, as well. [ 5 ]