Vaporizer
date: label: Date made
content: 1940
name: label: maker
content: Knapp-Monarch Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Kwikway Electric Vaporizer, Model K120-0, with an inscription that reads “115 V. 300 W. / PATS PEND. . . / STOCK SAMPLE. . .” The Knapp-Monarch Co. was established in 1928, through the merger of the A. S. Knapp Co., of St. Louis, Mo., and the Monarch Co., of Webster City, Iowa. The firm was offering Kwikway home appliances (electric curling irons, hair driers, vaporizers, etc.) by the early 1930s.
label: Description
content: Ref: William H. Fischer, “Vaporizer,” U.S. Patent 2,061,148 (Nov. 17, 1936), assigned to Knapp-Monarch Co.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Missouri, St. Louis
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Pharmacy
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: The Hoover Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0873.01
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0873.01
label: accession number
content: 1991.0873
label: patent number
content: 1,976,939
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Vaporizer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, aluminum (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ivory (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 24.3 cm x 16.5 cm x 11 cm; 9 9/16 in x 6 1/2 in x 4 5/16 in