D. D. T. Lite
date: label: date made
content: ca 1946 - 1947
notes: label: Description
content: Edmond Kelly served as an Air Force Captain during World War II. Returning to his California home, he saw a friend who had sprayed DDT over an outdoor electric light, and decided to design and produce an improved version. Kelly’s Electric D.D.T. Lite was on the market by 1946.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Reverse Luck,” Los Angeles Times (July 23, 1946), p. A4.
label: Description
content: Edmond Kelly, “Device for Destroying Insects Using an Insecticide,” Swiss Patent 276947A (1951).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Walter and Josephine Landor
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1993.0393.098
label: accession number
content: 1993.0393
label: catalog number
content: 1993.0393.098
objectType: label: Object Name
content: insecticide, lamp
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 25.5 cm x 11.5 cm x 11.5 cm; 10 1/32 in x 4 17/32 in x 4 17/32 in