Checkers (3)
date: label: Date made
content: 1933
name: label: designer of automatic molding machine
content: Gunderson, G. C.
notes: label: Description
content: Three black checkers, each inscribed “A CENTURY OF PROGRESS / 1833-1933” and “BAKELITE” and "Reg. U.S. Pat. Off." According to a note from Rupert Lowe, assistant to Leo H. Baekeland, these checkers were formed with the automatic molding machine designed by Gothfried C. Gunderson, a mechanical engineer from Norway who spent many years working for Bakelite in New Jersey. This machine was exhibited at the Chicago World's Fair in 1933, producing checkers that were given out as souvenirs.
label: Description
content: Ref. “Gunderson, Engineer, Dies at 105,” The Coast Star (Nov. 17, 1988), p. 2.
label: Description
content: Gothfried C. Gunderson, “Automatic Molding Apparatus,” U.S. Patent 2,150,097 (March 7, 1939), assigned to Bakelite Corporation.
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 J. Harry DuBois
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1984.0138.10 a-c
label: catalog number
content: 1984.0138.10 a-c
label: accession number
content: 1984.0138
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Checkers
label: Object Name
content: Bakelite Checkers (3)
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: Bakelite (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 mm x 25 mm; 3/16 in x in
label: Measurements
content: overall, each: 1/8 in x 1 in; .3175 cm x 2.54 cm