Apron
date: label: Date made
content: 1939
notes: label: Description
content: In 1935, while working for B. F. Goodrich and searching for a synthetic rubber, a chemical engineer named Waldo Lonsbery Semon developed a rubber-like plastic that was technically termed vinyl chloride, and popularly known as Koroseal. This apron is made of that material.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Research Spurs New Rubber Uses,” New York Times (Oct. 24, 1935), p. 7.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of the B. F. Goodrich Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0033.03
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0033.03
label: accession number
content: 1982.0033
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Kitchen Apron
label: Object Name
content: Koroseal Apron
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 122 cm x 91 cm; 48 1/16 in x 35 13/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 7/8 in x 18 1/2 in x 12 1/2 in; 7.3025 cm x 46.99 cm x 31.75 cm