Teeter Pong
notes: label: Description
content: This is a clear plastic mouse trap with a metal base. There is also a plastic tube attached with a ping pong ball inside, and all ends to the plastic tube are removable. Both sides of the tube have lettering reading "TEETER PONG/ PAT. PEND" (The patent was obtained in 1994)
label: Description
content: There is also brown packaging - a cardboard tube with white plastic ends. There are three labels/stickers on packaging: 1) is a round white label "TEETERPONG" with two mice on a teeter totter; 2) rectangular white label "THE TEETER PONG COMPANY, . . . THE PING PONG BALL MOUSETRAP!" ; 3) oval clear sticker with green lettering "Package / Environmentally / Friendly."
label: Description
content: There are two sets of instructions and a business card for Bill Oviatt (inventor) inside packaging.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanical and Civil Engineering
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: William T. Oviatt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1997.0034.02
label: accession number
content: 1997.0034
label: catalog number
content: 1997.0034.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Mousetrap
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall - trap: 4 7/8 in x 2 3/4 in x 6 3/4 in; 12.3825 cm x 6.985 cm x 17.145 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall - box and lid: 8 5/8 in x 4 in; x 21.9075 cm x 10.16 cm