Germ-Free System
date: label: date made
content: ca 1960s
name: label: inventor
content: Reyniers, James Arthur
label: maker
content: Reyniers and Son
notes: label: Description
content: The basic principles of germ-free technology were perfected in the 1940s by James Arthur Reyniers (1908-1967) and Philip Charles Trexler (1911-2014) working at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. This device came from a lab at the National Institutes of Health. A tag reads “Reyniers Germ Free Systems / ... / Model Number RSU-500 Serial Number ND 160-2 / ...”
label: Description
content: Ref: Robert G. W. Kirk, “Life in a Germ-Free World,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine (2012).
label: Description
content: Robert G. W. Kirk, “‘Standardization through Mechanization’: Germ-Free Life and the Engineering of the Ideal Laboratory Animal,” Technology and Culture 53 (2012): 61-93.
label: Description
content: “James Reyniers, Biologist, Is Dead,” New York Times (Nov. 5, 1967), p. 86.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
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: 2017.0038.01
label: catalog number
content: 2017.0038.01
label: accession number
content: 2017.0038
objectType: label: Object Name
content: germ free system lab
label: Object Name
content: germ free isolator
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 76 1/2 in x 98 in x 38 in; 194.31 cm x 248.92 cm x 96.52 cm