Vaporizer
name: label: maker
content: Glessner Company
notes: label: Description
content: Vaporizer designed by Harry Chappelear Glessner (1885-1973), sold by the Glessner Company, in Findlay, Ohio, and on the market by 1929. The inscription, in raised letters on the glass jar, reads “TURPO / ELECTRIC / VAPORIZER / PAT. APPLIED FOR / MADE IN U.S.A.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Harry C. Glessner, “Electric Vaporizer,” U.S. Patent 1,855,018 (April 19, 1932).
label: Description
content: Ad for Turpo Electric Vaporizer in [Washington] Evening Star (Jan. 26, 1930).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio, Findlay
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: 2005.0100.048
label: catalog number
content: 2005.0100.048
label: accession number
content: 2005.0100
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Vaporizer
label: Object Name
content: vaporizer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in x 4 1/2 in x 2 3/4 in; 8.89 cm x 11.43 cm x 6.985 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/4 in x 4 5/8 in x 2 3/4 in; 10.795 cm x 11.7475 cm x 6.985 cm