Atomizer
notes: label: Description
content: This atomizer was made, perhaps in the 1870s, by Asahel M. Shurtleff, a prominent scientific instrument maker in Boston. Arthur A. Shurtleff, his son, donated it to the Smithsonian in 1921. The brass parts are original; the bulb is not.
label: Description
content: Ref: A. M. Shurtleff, “Improved Atomizing-Apparatus for Surgical Use,” U.S. Patent 75,991 (March 24, 1868).
label: Description
content: Asahel M. Shurtleff, “Atomizer,” U.S. Patent 524,958 (Aug. 21, 1894), assigned to Codman & Shurtleff.
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-01160
label: accession number
content: 66665
label: catalog number
content: M-01160
objectType: label: Object Name
content: atomizer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/2 in x 2 in x 1 1/2 in; 19.05 cm x 5.08 cm x 3.81 cm