Ether Inhaler
date: label: date made
content: ca 1847
label: patent date
content: 1847-12-13
notes: label: Description
content: Patent model for Augustus A. Gould and William T. G. Morton, “Apparatus for Inhaling Ether, Etc.,” U.S. Patent 5,365 (November 13, 1847). Augustus Addison Gould (1805-1866) was a New England physician and naturalist. William Thomas Green Morton (1819-1868) was a dentist and physician who, in 1846, demonstrated the use of inhaled ether as a surgical anesthetic. Working together, the two men designed an apparatus for inhaling ether.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-04291
label: catalog number
content: M-04291
label: accession number
content: 89797
label: patent number
content: 5,365
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Inhaler, Ether
label: Object Name
content: ether inhaler
label: Object Name
content: ether inhaler, patent model
label: Other Terms
content: Inhaler, Ether; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 in x 10 1/8 in x 3 3/4 in; 22.86 cm x 25.7175 cm x 9.525 cm