Object Details
- Popper & Sons, Inc.
- Description
- An inscription on the cardboard box reads in part “Perfectum / A / Vital Link / in the / Nation’s / Health” and “ONE / INTERCHANGEABLE / TUBERCULIN SYRINGE / manufactured for / popper & sons, inc. new hyde park 11040.” Isidor A. Popper (1886-1974), a Jewish immigrant, established the firm in 1922.
- Ref: Isidor A. Popper and William A. Randall, “Hypodermic Needle and Novel Hub for the Same,” U.S. Patent 2,088,338 (July 27, 1937).
- “Isidor A. Popper,” New York Times (April 11, 1974), p. 38.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Dr. Steven Radoff
- ID Number
- 1993.0014.22
- catalog number
- 1993.0014.22
- accession number
- 1993.0014
- Object Name
- syringe, tuberculin
- Other Terms
- Drug Administrator; Hypodermic
- Physical Description
- plastic (packaging material)
- glass (syringe material)
- paper (packaging material)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 4 cm x 13.6 cm x 1.8 cm; 1 9/16 in x 5 3/8 in x 11/16 in
- box: 1 1/2 in x 5 1/8 in x 3/4 in; 3.81 cm x 13.0175 cm x 1.905 cm
- case: 5/8 in x 4 7/8 in x 7/8 in; 1.5875 cm x 12.3825 cm x 2.2225 cm
- syringe: 4 1/2 in x 5/8 in; 11.43 cm x 1.5875 cm
- place made
- United States: New York, New Hyde Park
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- The Antibody Initiative
- Health & Medicine
- Antibody Initiative: Tuberculosis
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1127362
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b3-6142-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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