Hypodermic Syringe Kit, Medical Department U.S.A.
date: label: date(s) of previous ownership
content: 1986 03 20
name: label: maker
content: Becton, Dickinson and Company
notes: label: Description
content: Leonidas Berry, a 1924 graduate of Wilberforce University who became a surgeon in Chicago, donated this syringe set to the Smithsonian. An inscription on one side of the metal case reads “MED. DEPT. U.S.A.” That on the other side reads “BECTON DICKINSON & CO. Admiral RUTHERFORD, N.J.”
label: Description
content: Maxwell W. Becton (1868-1951) and Fairleigh S. Dickinson (1866-1948) began in business together in 1897, selling medical supplies and trading as Becton, Dickinson and Company. The firm, incorporated in 1904, manufactured thermometers, syringes, and hypodermic needles, in a factory in Rutherford, New Jersey.
label: Description
content: Becton, Dickinson introduced its Admiral vest pocket hypodermic outfit in 1911, describing it as strong, durable, compact, and convenient. It consisted of a nickel silver case containing a syringe, a needle, and six tablet vials.
label: Description
content: Ref: Fairley S. Dickinson, “Hypodermic Syringe,” U.S. Patent 723,588 (March 24, 1903).
label: Description
content: Fairley S. Dickinson, “Case for Hypodermic Syringes,” U.S. Patent 1.059,285 (April 15, 1913).
label: Description
content: “The Vest Pocket Hypodermic Outfit,” American Druggist and Pharmaceutical Record (June 12, 1911): 62.
label: Description
content: Becton, Dickinson ad for the Admiral hypodermic outfit in American Druggist and Pharmaceutical Record (Aug. 14, 1911), p. 61.
label: Description
content: Fairley S. Dickinson, “Case for Hypodermic Syringes,” U.S. Patent 1,059,285 (April 15, 1913).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Rutherford
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Leonidas H. Berry, M.D.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0406.03
label: accession number
content: 1986.0406
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0406.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Kit, Hypodermic
label: Object Name
content: syringe kit
label: Other Terms
content: Kit, Hypodermic; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 5/8 in x 2 5/8 in x 5/8 in; 9.2075 cm x 6.6675 cm x 1.5875 cm