Autoclave Controller No. 13
date: label: date made
content: 1938?
name: label: maker
content: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
notes: label: Description
content: Autoclave Controller No. 13 was the control panel for Nylon Position 1, a nylon extrusion machine at the DuPont Seaford Nylon plant in Seaford, Delaware.
label: Description
content: Curator Jon Eklund learned that the controller was vandalized prior to its arrival at the National Museum of American History by workmen who were laid off when DuPont took the machine out of production in 1993. The workers wrote their names and comments in pen on the controller's exterior. Other pieces from Nylon Position 1 are currently on display in Science in American Life.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Industry & Manufacturing
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1993.0160.01
label: catalog number
content: 1993.0160.01
label: accession number
content: 1993.0160
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Industrial Controller
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass. paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: manufactured (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: metal. plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 208.28 cm x 198.12 cm x 117.48 cm; 82 in x 78 in x 46 1/4 in