Sterilizer
date: label: Date made
content: c. 1930
name: label: maker
content: Wilmot Castle Co.
notes: label: Description
content: An embossed inscription on the side of this item reads “THE ARNOLD / STEAM / STERILIZER / PAT. MAY 9 82 APR 20 97 / WILMOT CASTLE & CO. / ROCHESTER, N.Y.” Wilmot Castle & Co. was established by Wilmot V. Castle (1855-1941) in Rochester, N.Y., in 1883, and incorporated as Wilmot Castle Co. in 1903. One product of that firm was the steam cooker devised by William E. Arnold (ca. 1815-1884), also of Rochester. Herbert E. Smith (1857-1923), professor of chemistry at Yale University and dean of the Yale Medical School, modified that device, making it suitable for laboratory work.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Steam Sterilizer,” Medical and Surgical Reporter 62 (1890): 355-356.
label: Description
content: William E. Arnold, “Grain Cooker or Steamer,” U.S. Patent 257,810 (May 9, 1882).
label: Description
content: Wilmot Castle and Arthur Castle, “Sterilizer,” U.S. Patent 581,148 (April 20, 1897).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Rochester
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of University of Wisconsin, School of Pharmacy
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-10812
label: catalog number
content: M-10812
label: accession number
content: 254352
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Sterilizer, Baby Bottle
label: Object Name
content: sterilizer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (sterilizer parts(4) material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 36.5 cm x 24 cm; 14 3/8 in x 9 7/16 in