Hercules Dental Syringe
name: label: maker
content: C. J. Tagliabue Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: Hypodermic syringe with steel frame, graduated glass tube, three steel needles, and three vials of anesthetic substances. Despite the “Hercules Dental Syringe” inscription on the case, this was probably made by the C. J. Tagliabue Manufacturing Co. in in Brooklyn, New York.
label: Description
content: Ref: Charles J. Tagliabue, “Syringe,” U.S. Patent 325,132 (Aug. 25, 1885).
label: Description
content: Noyes Bros. and Cutler, Illustrated Catalogue of Surgical, Dental and Veterinary Instruments (St. Paul, 1888).
label: Description
content: Tagliabue ad in The Therapeutic Gazette 12 (1888): advertising p. 10.
label: Description
content: The Ransom and Randolph Co., 1911 Dental Catalogue (Toledo, 1911), p. 339.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ZZ.RSN82745X04
objectType: label: Object Name
content: syringe kit
label: Other Terms
content: Dentistry
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: case: 2 5/8 in x 5 1/8 in x 1 1/2 in; 6.6675 cm x 13.0175 cm x 3.81 cm
label: Measurements
content: syringe: 4 1/4 in x 2 in x 1 in; 10.795 cm x 5.08 cm x 2.54 cm