Walter H. Bulloch - Microscope Maker

Born in Glasgow, in 1835, Bulloch emigrated to New York after 1850. He apprenticed with Benjamin Pike & Son, where he worked until the Civil War, after which, he joined with William Wales, also of New York City, Bulloch making the stands and Wales providing the optics. In 1866, he opened his own business, after moving to Chicago. After a highly successful beginning in Chicago, Bulloch's shop was destroyed in the "Great Chicago Fire" of 1871. After a brief stay in Boston, working with Robert B. Tolles, Bulloch returned to Chicago in less than a year to begin rebuilding his former business. Many of Bulloch's stands have a rather unique profile, but, were highly regarded as state of the art at the time. His "Congress" stand was comparable in complexity to Zentmayer's "American Centennial". Bulloch's Chicago business closed shortly after his death in 1891.

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Bulloch's Binocular Stand A
American Journal of Microscopy advertiement, 1878

Bulloch's Biological Stand
Behrens The Microscope in Botany, 1885

Bulloch's New Student Stand
Behrens The Microscope in Botany, 1885

Bulloch's Sector Microscope
"Substage has rack and pinion movement in arc of circle for oblique lighting", ca. 1873
Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, 1880

Bulloch's Congress Stand
Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, 1880

The Congress Stand - newer version
Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, 1880

The Congress Stand in horizontal position
This later version of the Congress stand was modified for examination
of diatoms, for drawing , and for measuring apertures, while used
in the horizontal position, with the lamp attached to the substage bar.
Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, 1880

The New Congress Binocular Stand
Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, 1882

Bulloch's Lithological Stand
American Monthly Microscopical Journal, 1886

Bulloch's Professional No. 2
The Microscope advertisement, 1892

U.S. Patents

No. 215878, Improvements in Microscopes, May 27, 1879
Covers the independently swinging substage assembly and mirror and the fine adjustment mechanism and a stage centering mechanism.

No. 226648, Turn-Table for Microscope Slides, April 20, 1880
Bulloch's patented "Volute turn-table" was one of several microscopic accessories he invented and advertised.

No. 287904, Objective Attachment in Microscopes, Nov 6, 1883
A quick release and attachment objective mount.

19th century journal reprints

W. H. Bulloch's 1879 Price-List
From The Microscope & Microscopical Technology, Heinrich Frey, 1880 American edition.

Bulloch's newer Congress Stand
From the Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, 1882

Bulloch's Lithological Microscope
From The American Monthly Microscopical Journal, 1886

Obituary of Walter H. Bulloch
By Henry L. Tolman, in the American Monthly Microscopical Journal, 1892

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