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The history of Martin Microscope Company is inextricably linked to the history of its founder, Robert H. Martin, Sr. (Bob) (1916-2006).
Bob Martin was a 1937 graduate of Clemson Agricultural College (Clemson University). He worked at Bausch & Lomb in Atlanta after college where he got started in the field of optics. Called into active military duty during WWII in 1941, Bob used his optical experience to get transferred from the 82nd Airborne Division to Optical Ordinance. He received extensive optics training at Aberdeen Proving Ground before being sent to Cairo, Egypt to run optical manufacturing facilities in Cairo, as well as others in Tel Aviv and Basra, Iraq. While in Egypt, he was in charge of manufacturing optics for gun sights, levels, etc. He also became an accomplished marksman during this period of his life, winning several national and international target-shooting competitions.
Returning home to Easley, South Carolina, after the War in December of 1945, he decided not to return to Bausch & Lomb, but to go into business for himself. Martin Microscope Company was founded on July 4, 1946. "I wasn’t trying to be especially patriotic – it just turned out that I finished assembling my office building that day." Originally called Martin Scientific Instrument Company (Martin Instrument, for short), the first office was an Army surplus aluminum building. It was located in his home-town of Easley, South Carolina.
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