I had been invited by the Leitz Auction, based in Vienna, but, as. Leitz took over the company in 1869 and renamed it Optical Institute of. The company hired a very capable engineer named Ernst Leitz in 1865, who soon became a partner. Telescopes were the original emphasis, but within a few years microscopes took over as the main product. As far as I could determine, I was the only native English-speaking writer on Leica matters present at the opening. In 1849, Karl Kellner founded the Optical Institute in Wetzlar, Germany.

Leica became renowned as a maker of high quality equipment for photography, photographic reproduction, and observation.ДЄfter the 1960s - company face increasingly stiff competition in the market from Japanese manufacturers.ДЎ972 - co-operation between Wild Heerbrugg, Switzerland and Leitz.ДЎ986 - Leica GmbH was founded to manage the Leitz camera division just as sales began to decline.ДЎ986/1987 - company merges with Wild Heerbrugg AG to form Wild Leitz.ДЎ990 - Wild Leitz and Cambridge Instruments group (including Reichert Jung) merge now Leica Microsystems GmbH, Wetzlar + Leica Camera AG, Solms, Germany + Leica Geosystems, Heerbrugg, Switzerland. Brass with patinated bronze base and stand, with three lenses and two-sided substaged mirror. Last week, on September 30, Leica Camera AG opened the Ernst Leitz Museum on the headquarters campus, Leitz Park, in the beautiful old town of Wetzlar in Hessen. Oskar Barnack, previously an employee of Zeiss, experimented with his idea for several years before he finally invented the Leica camera.ДЎ849 - Wetzlar Optical Institute founded by Carl Kellner (1823-1855).ДЎ864 - mechanic Ernst Leitz joined the Optical Institute, manufacturing lenses for telescopes and microscopes.ДЎ865-1869 - partnership as 'Optical Institute' Leitz became a partner.ДЎ869 - Ernst Leitz (1843-1920) takes over sole management and renames company as E Leitz, Wetzlar.ДЎ920 - management passes to Ernst Leitz (II) then to his sons, Ernst, Ludwig and GГјnther in 1956.ДЎ924 - the camera goes into mass production. The first 35-mm compact camera was developed and manufactured at the Leitz company. The company became highly successful manufacturing microscopes before branching out in to camera manufacture.

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