Chemical Compound
date: label: Date made
content: 1890-01-21
name: label: patent granted to
content: Sommer, Adolph
label: maker
content: Sommer, Adolph
notes: label: Description
content: Patent model for Adolph Sommer, “Neutralizing Sulphochlorinated Organic Compounds,” U.S. Patent 419,726 (Jan. 21, 1890). Adolph Sommer (d. 1933) was a German chemist who developed a compound for treating such leather goods as boots and belts. In 1890, while living in Berkeley, Ca., Sommer began producing this compound, termed it Viscol, and obtained the American patent represented by this model. Sommer established a Viscol factory in Cambridge, Mass., soon thereafter, and prospered. His death, during a robbery, was widely reported in newspapers.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0016.6
label: catalog number
content: 1980.16.6
label: accession number
content: 1980.0016
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Chemical Compound
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 in x 1 3/16 in; 12.7 cm x 2.99999 cm