Strap for Street Car
date: label: date made
content: after 1917
notes: label: Description
content: The inscriptions on this Bakelite strap read “RICO / N0 7/ SANITARY” and “Patented / June 12 1917.” RICO (aka the Railway Improvement Co., of New York City) had exhibited sanitary straps of porcelain in 1912, noting that “In this age of improved sanitary conditions, nothing escapes the eye and microscope of the bacteriologist and in this scrutiny the street car strap has not been overlooked.”
label: Description
content: Ref: “Sanitary Straps for Street Car,” Popular Electricity Magazine 5 (1912): 883.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Union Carbide Corporation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0976.16
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0976.16
label: accession number
content: 1981.0976
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Strap for Street Car
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 216 mm x 105 mm x 29 mm; 8 1/2 in x 4 1/8 in x 1 1/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/2 in x 4 1/8 in x 1 1/8 in; 21.59 cm x 10.4775 cm x 2.8575 cm