Push-Pull Cable
notes: label: Description
content: This push-pull cable for automotive use represents an early use of polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), a synthetic fluoropolymer of tetrafluoroethylene known commercially as Teflon. Teleflex, the manufacturer, was a firm in Limerick, Pa., that began making push-pull cables for use in Spitfire airplanes, in 1943.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Limerick
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1989.0452.02
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0452.02
label: accession number
content: 1989.0452
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Automotive Push-Pull Cable
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic, teflon ptfe (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 45.7 cm x 3.8 cm x 3.2 cm; 18 in x 1 1/2 in x 1 1/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 17 1/2 in x 1 3/8 in; 2.54 cm x 44.45 cm x 3.4925 cm