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Abbe is best known for his work in optics; however, during his association with Carl Zeiss' microscope works, in Jena, he introduced the eight-hour workday, in remembrance of the 14-hour workday of his own father. The eight-hour workday would not be widely emulated in the United States until its use in the next century by the Ford Motor Company 1914, although it was proclaimed in 1884.

See also:

• Aberration in optical systems
• Abbe number
• Abbe prismOptics In optics, an Abbe prism named for its inventor, the German physicist Ernst Abbe, is a type of constant deviation dispersive prism similar to a Pellin-Broca prism. The prism consist of a block of glass forming a right prism with 30°-60°-90° triangu
• Abbe refractometer
• Abbe sine function

External link

• MacTutor's Biography of Ernst Karl Abbe