Oxygen Tent
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content: Continental Hospital Service, Inc., in Cleveland, advertised iceless oxygen tanks in 1947. A newspaper reported in 1953 that “The new ‘Continentalair’ eliminates the scary effect of oxygen tents and combines air purification and cooling with purification and cooling with controlled addition of oxygen.” An inscription painted on the side of this item reads “No 1 / The Original / Iceless Oxygen Tent / Built in 1930 / by Continental”.
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content: Ref: “Revolutionizing / OXYGEN / ADMINISTRATION / with the CONTINENTALAIR ICELESS OXYGEN TENT.” Ad in Hospitals (July 1947), p. 19.
label: Description
content: Magnell, “New Under the Sun,” The Hartford Courant (March 1, 1953), p. B15.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ZZ.RSN83603R51
objectType: label: Object Name
content: oxygen tent