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| History of Carl Zeiss in the USA |
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Mark IX projector installed at new planetaria in Oakland, California, and St. Louis, Missouri.
Carl Zeiss wins 2nd Technical Academy Award for advanced zoom movie camera lenses. Best picture of the year "Shakespeare In Love", filmed with new lenses. New Hayden Planetarium at Rose Center For Earth & Space opens in Manhattan with advanced ZEISS Mark IX projector.
Consolidation of Carl Zeiss business units in U.S. into five groups:
- laboratory microscopy
- surgical products
- ophthalmic instruments,
- industrial metrology, and
- consumer optics.
Corporate headquarters moves from NYC to Thornwood, New York. Purchase of Humphrey Instruments, San Leandro, California, a major manufacturer of ophthalmic diagnostic instruments. Consumer products group moves to Petersburg, Virginia.
Carl Zeiss Industrial Metrology moves to Minneapolis with purchase of Numerex Corp., a manufacturer of industrial measuring machines.
Carl Zeiss wins Technical Academy Award for high-speed movie camera lenses. Lenses used by Stanley Kubrick for film, "2001".
Major expansion of surgical microscopes into ophthalmology, otolaryngology, reconstructive surgery and neurosurgery. Establish- ment of industrial metrology division in Hawthorne, New York.
Move to enlarged offices at 444 Fifth Ave. Major products are laboratory microscopes, electron microscopes, surgical microscopes, ophthalmic instruments, surveying instruments, industrial lenses, planetaria, cameras and binoculars. Branch offices established in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington, DC.
First ZEISS planetarium in U.S. installed at Adler Planetarium, Chicago.
Carl Zeiss, Inc., incorporated in New York State with sales and service offices at 485 Fifth Ave.
Increased sales of ZEISS optical instruments in U.S. by agents and distributors.
First record of a direct sale of a ZEISS microscope from Jena, Germany, to U.S. (Wellesley College, Massachusetts). | |
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