Busher's Automatic Needle Injector
date: label: date made
content: ca. 1936-1954
label: patent date (Busher patent)
content: 1932-02-16
label: patent date (Dickinson patent)
content: 1936-07-07
name: label: maker
content: Becton, Dickinson and Company
notes: label: Description
content: Herbert Busher, a physician in St Paul, Minnesota, designed a hypodermic syringe suitable for the self-administration of insulin. This example was made by Becton-Dickinson in New Jersey. Inscriptions read “DR. BUSHER’S AUTOMATIC” and “B-D” and “PATENTED / 2047010”.
label: Description
content: Ref: Herbert H. Busher, “Hypodermic Syringe,” U.S. Patent 1,845,036 (Feb. 16, 1932).
label: Description
content: Herbert Busher, “Automatic Hypodermic Syringe for Self Administration of Insulin and Other Uses,” Journal of the American Medical Association 102 (1934): 1152.
label: Description
content: Herbert Busher, “Automatic Hypodermic Injector,” Science 81 (1935): 256.
label: Description
content: Farleigh S. Dickinson, “Automatic Syringe Injector,” U.S. Patent 2,047,010 (filed Jan. 30, 1935; granted July 7, 1936).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Becton, Dickinson and Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-06720.07
label: catalog number
content: M-06720.07
label: accession number
content: 201362
label: patent number
content: US2047010A
label: patent number
content: US1845036A
objectType: label: Object Name
content: syringe, insulin, with automatic injector
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (plunger material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (barrel material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (tip, force material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (needle injector, automatic material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 7/8 in x 2.1 cm; x 9.8425 cm x 13/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 4 in x 1 in; 2.54 cm x 10.16 cm x 2.54 cm