Object Details
- Eli Lilly and Company
- Description
- After the connection between insulin and diabetes was announced in 1921, pharmaceutical firms hastened to bring insulin and related materials to market. This cardboard box contains a hypodermic needle in a metal case, a glass bottle for alcohol, and related material. A label reads in part: “LILLY’S ASEPTIC SYRINGE NEEDLE / NO. 65 / (PATENT 1,625,035)” and “ELI LILLY & COMPANY, INDIANAPOLIS, U.S.A.”
- Ref: Eli Lily, “Hypodermic Kit,” U.S. Patent 1,625,035 (April 19, 1927).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Eli Lilly and Company; Accession 111796 (1930)
- ca 1930
- ID Number
- MG.M-02887
- catalog number
- M-02887
- accession number
- 111796
- Object Name
- syringe kit
- syringe kit, insulin
- Other Terms
- syringe kit; Hypodermic
- Physical Description
- glass (bottles(2) material)
- glass (dropper material)
- glass (plunger material)
- glass (barrel material)
- glass (tip, force material)
- steel (case material)
- steel (case, needle material)
- steel (handle, finger rest material)
- steel (needles(2) material)
- rubber (caps(3) material)
- paper (box material)
- Measurements
- overall: 2 1/4 in x 6 3/4 in x 6 1/8 in; 5.715 cm x 17.145 cm x 15.5575 cm
- overall: 6 cm x 17 cm x 15.4 cm; 2 3/8 in x 6 11/16 in x 6 1/16 in
- place made
- United States: Indiana, Indianapolis
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Diabetes
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_730843
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-7fc8-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
