AtroPen Auto-Injector
date: label: date made
content: on or before 1967
notes: label: Description
content: Armed with an Atropen Auto-Injector, a person could carry a preselected amount of medication and self-inject when necessary. The form was devised by Stanley J. Sarnoff (1918-1990), a cardiologist, and David M. Potter (1905-1984), a design engineer. Their basic patent described “a hypodermic syringe having a retractile needle which can spring with substantial speed and force from a sheathed to an unsheathed position simultaneously ejecting fluid throughout.” The Atropen was produced by Rodana Research Corp. in Bethesda, Md., a firm that Sarnoff established in 1958. Rodana became Survival Technology in 1966.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Sarnoff Perfects New Injector of Antidote for ‘Nerve Gas’,” The Harvard Crimson (Dec. 2, 1953).
label: Description
content: Stanley J. Sarnoff and David M. Potter, “Hypodermic Injector,” U.S. Patent 2,832,339 (April 29, 1958).
label: Description
content: “Survival Tech Gets a Shot in the Arm,” Washington Post (July 25, 1983), pp. 1 and 32.
label: Description
content: “Stanley J. Sarnoff, 72, Cardiologist and Inventor,” New York Times (May 25, 1990), p. D18.
label: Description
content: “David M. Potter 3d; Aeronautical Expert Invented Flow Meter,” New York Times (Oct. 11, 1984), p. D26.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Maryland, Bethesda
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Dr. Alfred R. Henderson, M.D.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-12161.01
label: catalog number
content: M-12161.01
label: accession number
content: 271983
objectType: label: Object Name
content: auto-injector
label: Object Name
content: syringe
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: atropine, 2 mg (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 5 5/8 in x 1/2 in; 2.54 cm x 14.2875 cm x 1.27 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 3/4 in x 1/2 in; x 9.525 cm x 1.27 cm