Zeiss Jena Works
1846 - Museum
Overview
Carl Zeiss opened a small workshop for microscopes and, with physicist Ernst Abbe and glass chemist Otto Schott, created modern optics: mathematical lens design and specialty optical glass. The Jena works trained a whole industry and now host the German Optical Museum.
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