Syringe
date: label: Date made
content: ca. 1955
notes: label: Description
content: Zbislaw Maciej Roehr (1902-1970) came from Poland to the United States in 1939, obtained several patents (Canadian and U.S.) for syringes, and established Roehr Products, a medical supply firm in Waterbury, Ct. This syringe is made primarily of plastic. The inscriptions read "Monoject" and "Sterile / Non-Pyrogenic / Disposable / 3cc / 22 1 1/2 / 143830.” The form was introduced in 1955. The word Monoject was introduced in 1957 and copyrighted in 1958
label: Description
content: Ref: Zbislaw M. Roehr, “Hypodermic Syringe,” U.S. Patent 2,728,341 (Dec. 27, 1955).
label: Description
content: Zbislaw M. Roehr, “Disposable Needle Assembly,” U.S. Patent 2,953,243 (Sept. 20, 1960).
label: Description
content: “Zbislaw Roehr,” New York Times (Dec. 15, 1970), p. 49.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Polish Americans
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of J. Harry DuBois
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1983.0626.03
label: catalog number
content: 1983.0626.03
label: accession number
content: 1983.0626
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Syringe
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 134 mm x 22 mm; 5 1/4 in x 7/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/4 in x 15/16 in; 13.335 cm x 2.38125 cm