B-D Multifit Hypodermic Syringe, 5cc
name: label: maker
content: Becton, Dickinson and Company
notes: label: Description
content: Joseph J. Kleiner (1897-1972) was an American inventor who, in 1920, formed the Goodman-Kleiner company to develop diagnostic instruments for medical purposes. In 1935, Kleiner and others established Multifit, Inc., to import borosilicate glass syringes from Japan. In 1943, with war having put an end to that business. Kleiner joined Becton, Dickinson, bringing along the rights to the Multifit syringe with interchangeable parts. That product finally came to market in the early 1950s. The inscriptions on this example read "B-D / Luer-Lok / Multifit / made in U.S.A."
label: Description
content: Ref: “New Hypo Syringe Has Interchangeable Parts,” Science News-Letter 64 (July 11, 1953): 18.
label: Description
content: Ad for B-D Multifit Syringes in American Journal of Nursing 54 (Aug. 1954): 1001.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Donation of George E. Burch, Jr., M.D., Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0186.156
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0186.156
label: accession number
content: 1980.0186
objectType: label: Object Name
content: syringe
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 10.4 cm; 4 3/32 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/16 in x 3/4 in; 10.31875 cm x 1.905 cm