Thermal Container
date: label: date made
content: mid-1940s
name: label: maker
content: Lawrence A. Lockwood Company
notes: label: Description
content: Thermal container for keeping nursing bottles hot or cold, with a paper label that reads in part “babykin / TRADE MARK / SCIENTIFIC CONTAINER” and “LAWRENCE A. LOCKWOOD CO. / CHICAGO, U.S.A.” This type of item was on the market by the late 1940s.
label: Description
content: Ref: Lawrence A. Lockwood, “Baby’s Heat Retaining Nursing Bottle Holder,” U.S. Patent 2,399,647 (May 7, 1946).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
topic: label: Subject
content: Infant & Children's Products - Pediatrics
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Sara Jean Binder
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2016.0384.42
label: catalog number
content: 2016.0384.42
label: accession number
content: 2016.0384
objectType: label: Object Name
content: thermal container, infant feeder
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (insert material)
label: Physical Description
content: cardboard; metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: insert: 6 1/4 in x 3 1/2 in; 15.875 cm x 8.89 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 27/32 in x 3 21/32 in x 3 21/32 in; 22.479 cm x 9.271 cm x 9.271 cm