Pac-Kit First Aid
date: label: Date made
content: after 1922
label: date made
content: after 1946
name: label: maker
content: Pac-Kit Company
label: Maker
content: Burroughs Wellcome Company
notes: label: Description
content: In 1922, the insurance carrier of American Telephone and Telegraph Company sought a solution for the many minor injuries that became infected. In response, Burroughs Wellcome designed a system that standardized the antiseptics, medications and dressings into small unit-dose packages and trademarked the term Pac-Kit. After World War II, Burroughs Wellcome sold the first aid operation to two employees, William Fallon and Cecil R. Brown. After Fallon died in 1958, the Brown family purchased his half of the company, and incorporated the business as Pac-Kit Safety Equipment Company, Inc in 1960.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ZZ.RSN82862X18
objectType: label: Object Name
content: First Aid Kit
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (case material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 cm x 22.8 cm x 6.7 cm; 2 3/4 in x 9 in x 2 5/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 3/4 in x 9 in x 6 5/8 in; 6.985 cm x 22.86 cm x 16.8275 cm