Syringe
name: label: maker
content: Popper & Sons, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: 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.
label: Description
content: 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).
label: Description
content: “Isidor A. Popper,” New York Times (April 11, 1974), p. 38.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New Hyde Park
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: The Antibody Initiative
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Antibody Initiative: Tuberculosis
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Dr. Steven Radoff
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1993.0014.22
label: catalog number
content: 1993.0014.22
label: accession number
content: 1993.0014
objectType: label: Object Name
content: syringe, tuberculin
label: Other Terms
content: Drug Administrator; Hypodermic
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (packaging material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (syringe material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (packaging material)
label: Measurements
content: 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
label: Measurements
content: 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
label: Measurements
content: case: 5/8 in x 4 7/8 in x 7/8 in; 1.5875 cm x 12.3825 cm x 2.2225 cm
label: Measurements
content: syringe: 4 1/2 in x 5/8 in; 11.43 cm x 1.5875 cm