Edward Bausch (September 26, 1854 – July 30, 1941) was an American

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and business executive, who served as president of

Bausch & Lomb Optical Company Bausch + Lomb is an eye health products company based in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada. It is one of the world's largest suppliers of contact lenses, lens care products, pharmaceuticals, intraocular lenses, and other eye surgery products. The compan ...

from 1926 to 1935.Edward Bausch
''OSA History,'' The Optical Society. Accessed 2017-09-08 He was awarded the twelfth

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in 1936. He served as chairman of the board until his death.Associated Press, “Bausch, Head of Big Optical Firm, Dies”, ''The San Bernardino Daily Sun'', San Bernardino, California, Tuesday 1 August 1944, Volume 50, page 3. Bausch was born in

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John Jacob Bausch John Jacob Bausch (born Johann Jakob Bausch; July 25, 1830 – February 14, 1926) was a German-American maker of optical instruments who co-founded Bausch & Lomb (with Henry Lomb). Over six decades he transformed his small, local optical shop into ...

and Barbara (Zimmermann) Bausch. He obtained his engineering degree from

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in 1874. He was a brother of

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. He spent his life-long career at the optical supply business

Bausch & Lomb Bausch + Lomb is an eye health products company based in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada. It is one of the world's largest suppliers of contact lenses, lens care products, pharmaceuticals, intraocular lenses, and other eye surgery products. The compan ...

, where he was president from 1926 to 1935, and saw it “grow from an obscure

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shop to an industry of worldwide importance.” One of his early accomplishments in the late 19th century was the development and production of the company's first commercial

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.Donovan A. Shilling (2011).
A Photographic History of Bausch + Lomb
'' p. 19.

Selected publications

* Edward Bausch.
Manipulation of the microscope
'' Rochester, N.Y. : Bausch & Lomb optical company, 1891.

References

1854 births 1941 deaths Engineers from New York (state) Cornell University College of Engineering alumni Businesspeople from Rochester, New York ASME Medal recipients {{US-mechanical-engineer-stub