Ideal Syringe - 1 cc Tuberculin with Blue Plunger
name: label: maker
content: East Rutherford Syringes, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: Glass syringe with “Ideal” and “Made in USA.” inscriptions. The text on one end of on the cardboard box reads in part “IDEAL / SYRINGE / 1 C.C. TUBERCULIN / Blue Plunger / EAST RUTHERFORD SYRINGE.” The East Rutherford Syringe Co. introduced the term “IDEAL” in 1920 and filed for a trademark in 1947.
label: Description
content: Ref: Samuel Kolodny, Nicholas Micci, and Nicholas Krueger, “Method of Manufacturing Glass Syringes with Interchangeable Pistons and Barrels,” U.S. Patent 2,641,093 (June 9, 1953), assigned to East Rutherford Syringes, Inc.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, East Rutherford
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: The Antibody Initiative
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Antibody Initiative: Tuberculosis
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content: Antibody Initiative: Diagnostics
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.0883.141
label: accession number
content: 1978.0883
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0883.141
objectType: label: Object Name
content: syringe, tuberculin
label: Other Terms
content: Syringe; Hypodermic
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (plunger; barrel; tip, force material)
label: Measurements
content: box: 3/4 in x 1 1/2 in x 5 in; 1.905 cm x 3.81 cm x 12.7 cm
label: Measurements
content: syringe: 1/2 in x 4 3/8 in x 5/8 in; 1.27 cm x 11.1125 cm x 1.5875 cm