Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
in reference to spy-glasses or binoculars, 1905, from the firm founded by German optical instrument manufacturer Carl Zeiss (1816-1888).
Wikipedia
Zeiss is a DC Comics villain, primarily an enemy of the Batman. He first appeared in Batman issue #582.
Zeiss or Zeiß may refer to:
Usage examples of "zeiss".
He knew her name — Demmy Zeiss — and that she had scored fourth in the last Planetfest.
When Ralph and Al reached the attic, they opened their canvas bags and removed a small folding camp chair, a drill with a steel bit, a tray of sandwiches, two cans of beer, a pair of 12 by 40 Zeiss binoculars for viewing distant objects in a dim light, and two live hamsters that had been injected with three quarters of a milligram of acetyl promazine.
If you take all the atoms of such a compound lens and throw them together at random under the jostling influence of the ordinary laws of physics in nature, it is theoretically possible that, by sheer luck, the atoms would just happen to fall into the pattern of a Zeiss compound lens, and even that the atoms round the rim should happen to fall in such a way that the name Carl Zeiss is etched out.