Electric Sterilizer No. 5
date: label: date made
content: after 1938
name: label: maker
content: Renwal Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: A label on this electric sterilizer reads “RENWAL / 120 VOLTS A. C. ONLY / STARTS 5 AMP. / RUNS 2 AMP. / STERILIZER No. 5 / PROTECTED BY US PATENTS / 2158692 / 2158698 / 223023[?] / 2230245 / ELECTRIC / MFRD. BY AMERICAN SUNDRIES CO. BROOKLYN. N.Y.” This model was advertised as "specially designed for diabetics." That is, it could be used for sterilizing hypodermic needles.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Brooklyn
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Bernard J. Dziedzic, pharmacist, Kadow Pharmacy, Milwaukee, WI
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.306964.01
label: accession number
content: 306964
label: catalog number
content: 306964.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electric sterilizer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in x 6 in x 3 1/2 in; 8.89 cm x 15.24 cm x 8.89 cm