Protective Goggles
date: label: date made
content: c. 2000
name: label: maker
content: Uvex Sports GmbH & Co. KG
notes: label: Description
content: These Uvex brand protective goggles were made by Honeywell, and used in an Intel chip manufacturing lab during the 2000s. The glasses have blue tinted lenses on black top frame; the lenses are only held to the frame at the top.
label: Description
content: Yogeeswaran Ganesan used these protective goggles at his job as an photolithography engineer for the Intel Corporation between 2011 2014. Ganesan was born in India and came to the United States, first as a Masters student at the University of Texas, Arlington then on an F 1 student visa to participate in the nanomechanics PhD program at Rice University. After receiving his PhD for his thesis on “The Mechanical Characterization of Multi Wall Carbon Nanotubes and Related Interfaces in Nanocomposites” Intel hired him as a semiconductor research scientist.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Production and Manufacturing
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content: Industry & Manufacturing
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content: American Enterprise
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Yogeeswaran Ganesan
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2014.0039.03
label: catalog number
content: 2014.0039.03
label: accession number
content: 2014.0039
objectType: label: Object Name
content: goggles
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: blue (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: grey (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 7/8 in x 5 3/4 in x 5 1/4 in; 4.7625 cm x 14.605 cm x 13.335 cm