Hypodermic Needles
name: label: maker
content: Faichney Instrument Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: Cardboard box containing a dozen hypodermic needles. The text on the box reads “ROYAL / APEX / HYPODERMIC / NEEDLES / Rustless Steel / FAICHNEY / INSTRUMENT CORP / WATERTOWN / NEW YORK / U.S.A.”
label: Description
content: The Glass Thermometry Company was established in Watertown, N.Y., in 1888. It became the Faichney Instrument Co. in 1920. At mid-century, the firm boasted being the largest clinical thermometer company in the world.” It was acquired by Chesebrough-Pond Inc. in 1966. In 1911, after several more corporate acquisitions and divestitures, the Watertown factory closed.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Watertown
label: associated place
content: United States: Louisiana, Saint Martinville
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: The Fournet Drugstore Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0475.811
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0475.811
label: accession number
content: 1985.0475
label: accession number
content: 1985.0475
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Needle
label: Object Name
content: needle set
label: Object Name
content: syringe
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1.6 cm x 5 cm x 5.6 cm; 5/8 in x 1 15/16 in x 2 3/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/4 in x 2 1/4 in x 5/8 in; 8.255 cm x 5.715 cm x 1.5875 cm