Hypodermic Syringe
notes: label: Description
content: Glass syringe with a U80 scale for insulin that could be had for $6.95 from the American Foundation for the Blind. An inscription on the cardboard box reads in part, “HILL / ACCURATE DOSAGE / SYRINGE” and “Manufactured for VIA-MED PRODUCTS, INC., East Rutherford, New Jersey.” This was designed by Clifford Warren Hill (1923-2007), a graduate of the Stevens Institute of Technology.
label: Description
content: Ref: Clifford Warren Hill, “Syringe Assembly,” U.S. Patent 3,237,660 (March 1, 1966).
label: Description
content: Virginia A. Boyles, “Injection Aids for Blind Diabetic Patients,” The American Journal of Nursing 77 (1977): 1456-1458.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Diabetes
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2012.0165.599
label: accession number
content: 2012.0165
label: catalog number
content: 2012.0165.599
objectType: label: Object Name
content: syringe, insulin
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 7/8 in x 5 1/2 in x 1 in; 2.2225 cm x 13.97 cm x 2.54 cm