Paperweight
notes: label: Description
content: Red acrylic paperweight with an image of the Jules Montenier Stopette deodorant container “which created a vast new market for blow-molded polyethylene packaging as we know it today. Significantly, this began in 1947. . .25 years prior to our inauguration. . .plastics history founded on Plax-Monsanto technology.” The inscription on the front reads “25 Year Club / Monsanto-Bloomfield / Inaugurated November 1972.” Julies Montenier was a cosmetic chemist in Chicago who invented an anti-perspirant that was marketed as Stopette; and, working with engineers from the Plax Corp., he developed a plastic bottle for Stopette.
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 J. Harry DuBois
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1983.0538.28
label: catalog number
content: 1983.0538.28
label: accession number
content: 1983.0538
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Paperweight
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 35 mm x 90 mm x 90 mm; 1 3/8 in x 3 9/16 in x 3 9/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 7/16 in x 3 1/2 in x 3 1/2 in; 3.65125 cm x 8.89 cm x 8.89 cm