Syringe
date: label: date made
content: 1891
name: label: maker
content: Cleveland Dental Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: Anton Molinari (1856-) was born to Italian parents then living in Poland, attended to school in Paris, emigrated to the United States in 1874, and trained as a machinist. In 1889, he moved to Woodbridge, N.J., and established a plant to manufacture surgical instruments. This steel syringe with a “PAT. APRIL 7, 1891” inscription is based on a Molinari design. Another inscription reads "Cleveland Dental Mfg. Co. Cleveland, O."
label: Description
content: Ref: Anton Molinari, “Piston for Syringes,” U.S. Patent 449,883 (April 7, 1891).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: W. Harry Archer, D. D. S.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-07006
label: catalog number
content: M-07006
label: accession number
content: 216553
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Syringe Kit
label: Object Name
content: syringe kit
label: Other Terms
content: Syringe Kit; Hypodermic
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (barrel, fenestrated material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (barrel, fenestrated material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (handle, finger rest material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (plunger material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (tip, screw material)
label: Measurements
content: case: 1 3/8 in x 4 1/2 in x 2 1/4 in; 3.4925 cm x 11.43 cm x 5.715 cm
label: Measurements
content: syringe: 1 in x 1 7/8 in x 4 in; 2.54 cm x 4.7625 cm x 10.16 cm