Object Details
- Description
- Glass syringe with a U80 scale for insulin that could be had for $6.95 from the American Foundation for the Blind. An inscription on the cardboard box reads in part, “HILL / ACCURATE DOSAGE / SYRINGE” and “Manufactured for VIA-MED PRODUCTS, INC., East Rutherford, New Jersey.” This was designed by Clifford Warren Hill (1923-2007), a graduate of the Stevens Institute of Technology.
- Ref: Clifford Warren Hill, “Syringe Assembly,” U.S. Patent 3,237,660 (March 1, 1966).
- Virginia A. Boyles, “Injection Aids for Blind Diabetic Patients,” The American Journal of Nursing 77 (1977): 1456-1458.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- 2012.0165.599
- accession number
- 2012.0165
- catalog number
- 2012.0165.599
- Object Name
- syringe, insulin
- Measurements
- overall: 7/8 in x 5 1/2 in x 1 in; 2.2225 cm x 13.97 cm x 2.54 cm
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Diabetes
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1458763
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ae-0afb-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
