Ethyl Chloride
notes: label: Description
content: Cardboard box with inscriptions that read in part “100 GRAM / ETHYL CHLORIDE / MANUFACTURED BY / STRATFORD-COOKSON CO. / 4058 HAVERFORD AVE. PHILADELPHIA, PA. U.S.A.” Ethyl chloride (aka chloroethane) was used as an anesthesia, a solvent, or a refrigerant The Stratford-Cookson Co. began in business, as such, in 1913. The metal device in the box may have been made by the S. S. White Dental Manufacturing Co.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-12700
label: catalog number
content: M-12700
objectType: label: Object Name
content: chloride
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall -largest cylindrical piece: 4 1/2 in x 1 1/8 in; 11.43 cm x 2.8575 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall - box: 2 in x 8 1/2 in x 3 in; 5.08 cm x 21.59 cm x 7.62 cm