Object Details
- East Rutherford Syringes, Inc.
- Description
- Glass syringe with “Ideal” and “Made in USA.” inscriptions. The text on one end of on the cardboard box reads in part “IDEAL / SYRINGE / 1 C.C. TUBERCULIN / Blue Plunger / EAST RUTHERFORD SYRINGE.” The East Rutherford Syringe Co. introduced the term “IDEAL” in 1920 and filed for a trademark in 1947.
- Ref: Samuel Kolodny, Nicholas Micci, and Nicholas Krueger, “Method of Manufacturing Glass Syringes with Interchangeable Pistons and Barrels,” U.S. Patent 2,641,093 (June 9, 1953), assigned to East Rutherford Syringes, Inc.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- 1978.0883.141
- accession number
- 1978.0883
- catalog number
- 1978.0883.141
- Object Name
- syringe, tuberculin
- Other Terms
- Syringe; Hypodermic
- Physical Description
- glass (plunger; barrel; tip, force material)
- Measurements
- box: 3/4 in x 1 1/2 in x 5 in; 1.905 cm x 3.81 cm x 12.7 cm
- syringe: 1/2 in x 4 3/8 in x 5/8 in; 1.27 cm x 11.1125 cm x 1.5875 cm
- place made
- United States: New Jersey, East Rutherford
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- The Antibody Initiative
- Health & Medicine
- Antibody Initiative: Tuberculosis
- Antibody Initiative: Diagnostics
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_730856
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-9718-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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