Formaldehyde Generator
date: label: date made
content: ca 1898-1910
notes: label: Description
content: Frederick George Novy (1864-1957), an early and accomplished American bacteriologist who served as a professor at and dean of the Medical School of the University of Michigan, developed a formaldehyde generator for disinfecting rooms. An inscription on this example reads “PARKE, DAVIS & CO.”
label: Description
content: Ref: “Professor Novy’s Formaldehyde Generator—Simple, Efficient, and Economical,” Therapeutic Notes (Sept. 1898): 32-33; this was published by Parke, Davis & Co.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-12870.02
label: catalog number
content: M-12870.02
label: accession number
content: 287162
objectType: label: Object Name
content: generator, formaldehyde
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)